4 papers
In-Band Scattering and Absorption of Infrared Blocking Foam Filters for Millimeter-wave Cameras
Alex Thomas, Bugao Zou, Shreya Sutariya +11
Expanded closed-cell polymer foams are widely used as thermal infrared (IR) blocking filters in millimeter-wave cameras, particularly for Cosmic Microwave Background observations.…
The Simons Observatory: On-sky performance of radio-transparent multi-layer insulation (RT-MLI) using Styroace-II Styrofoam
Samuel Day-Weiss, Nicholas Galitzki, Atsuto Takeuchi +14
We present the on-sky performance of a Radio-Transparent Multi-Layer Insulation filter (RT-MLI) that uses Styroace-II styrofoam to reject ambient thermal radiation from entering a…
A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS
Yunyang Li, Joseph Eimer, John Appel +34
We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr o…
The Simons Observatory: laboratory beam characterization for the first small aperture telescope
Remington G. Gerras, Thomas Alford, Michael J. Randall +10
The Simons Observatory is a ground-based telescope array located at an elevation of 5200 meters, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, designed to measure the temperature and polarizatio…