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astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Characterization of the 220/280 GHz TES Detector Modules

Daniel Dutcher, Peter Dow, Shannon M. Duff +11

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new suite of cosmic microwave background telescopes in the Chilean Atacama Desert with an extensive science program spanning cosmology, Galactic an…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

Tanay Bhandarkar, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Jeff Iuliano +41

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low Frequency Detectors

Aashrita Mangu, Benjamin Westbrook, Shawn Beckman +11

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurement…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: A Minimum-Cost Matching Algorithm for Pairing Measured Resonances with Designed Detectors

Jack Lashner, Kaiwen Zheng, Kevin T. Crowley +4

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment currently being deployed to Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The initial deployment o…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The Simons Observatory: Dark Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope

Saianeesh K. Haridas, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tanay Bhandarkar +20

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background experiment composed of three 0.42 m Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) in the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

The Simons Observatory: Studies of Detector Yield and Readout Noise From the First Large-Scale Deployment of Microwave Multiplexing at the Large Aperture Telescope

Thomas P. Satterthwaite, Zeeshan Ahmed, Kyuyoung Bae +21

The Simons Observatory is a new ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, which is currently being commissioned in Chile's Atacama Desert. During its survey, the observa…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands

Carlos E. Sierra, Kathleen Harrington, Shreya Sutariya +42

The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes

Nicholas Galitzki, Tran Tsan, Jake Spisak +77

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Ata…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

The Simons Observatory: Large-Scale Characterization of 90/150 GHz TES Detector Modules

Daniel Dutcher, Shannon M. Duff, John C. Groh +14

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite being deployed in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The telescopes within SO use three types…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: Detector Re-biasing With Bias-step Measurements

Yuhan Wang, Tanay Bhandarkar, Steve K. Choi +14

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope,…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Simons Observatory: Complex Impedance Measurements for a Full Focal-Plane Module

Jack Lashner, Joseph Seibert, Max Silva-Feaver +11

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground based Cosmic Microwave Background experiment that will be deployed to the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will field over 60,000 transition edge…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 10 cited

Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module

Erin Healy, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold +28

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 17 cited

The Simons Observatory 220 and 280 GHz Focal-Plane Module: Design and Initial Characterization

Erin Healy, Daniel Dutcher, Zachary Atkins +16

The Simons Observatory (SO) will detect and map the temperature and polarization of the millimeter-wavelength sky from Cerro Toco, Chile across a range of angular scales, providing…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

The 90 and 150 GHz universal focal-plane modules for the Simons Observatory

Heather McCarrick, Kam Arnold, Zachary Atkins +21

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of telescopes located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background. There are a ho…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module

Zachary B. Huber, Yaqiong Li, Eve M. Vavagiakis +14

The Simons Observatory (SO) includes four telescopes that will measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background using over 60,000 highly sensitive transi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program

Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng, Zachary Atkins +20

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background instrument to be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will deploy 60,000 transition-edge sensor bolome…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) Integration and Validation Results

Zhilei Xu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +42

The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The observatory consists of three 0.5 m Small Apertur…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 52 cited

A Microwave SQUID Multiplexer Optimized for Bolometric Applications

B. Dober, Z. Ahmed, K. Arnold +27

A microwave SQUID multiplexer (MUX) has been optimized for coupling to large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We present the scalable cryogenic…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 79 cited

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 20 cited

Magnetic Sensitivity of AlMn TESes and Shielding Considerations for Next-Generation CMB Surveys

E. M. Vavagiakis, S. W. Henderson, K. Zheng +17

In the next decade, new ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments such as Simons Observatory (SO), CCAT-prime, and CMB-S4 will increase the number of detectors obs…