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most citedThe Simons Observatory: A fully remote controlled calibration system with a sparse wire grid for cosmic microwave background telescopes

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astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Overview of the Cryogenic Half-wave Plate Polarization Modulators

Junna Sugiyama, Kyohei Yamada, Bryce Bixler +5

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment that is located in the Atacama plateau. The Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) of SO are op…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Rotation Performance of Cryogenic Half-Wave Plate Polarization Modulators

Kyohei Yamada, Bryce Bixler, Junna Sugiyama +10

We present the on-site rotation performance of the first three cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (HWP) polarization modulators for the Simons Observatory small apertu…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope

Hironobu Nakata, Shunsuke Adachi, Kyohei Yamada +22

Improved measurements of -modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on the polarization angle oscillations of the Crab Nebula with the Simons Array and its applications to the search for axion-like particles

Tylor Adkins, Shahed Shayan Arani, Kam Arnold +27

We present a search for polarization oscillation of the Crab Nebula, also known as Tau A, at millimeter wavelengths using observations with the Simons Array, the successor experime…

astro-ph.CO2025

Addressing Synchrotron Challenges for CMB Observations: ELFS-SA Collaboration for Robust Foreground Removal

E. de la Hoz, A. Mennella, K. Arnold +17

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments aim to detect primordial gravitational waves with unprecedented sensitivity. Effective foreground removal is essential to avo…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Simons Observatory: Large Diameter and Large Load-Capacity Superconducting Magnetic Bearing for a Millimeter-Wave Polarization Modulator

Daichi Sasaki, Junna Sugiyama, Kyohei Yamada +5

We present the design methodology and characterization of a superconducting magnetic bearing (SMB) system for the polarization modulator in the SAT-LF, one of the small aperture te…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Simons Observatory: Validation of reconstructed power spectra from simulated filtered maps for the Small Aperture Telescope survey

Carlos Hervías-Caimapo, Kevin Wolz, Adrien La Posta +33

We present a transfer function-based method to estimate angular power spectra from filtered maps for cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. This is especially relevant for expe…

astro-ph.IM2024

The European Low Frequency Survey on the Simons Array

Aniello Mennella, Kam Arnold, Susanna Azzoni +18

In this paper we present the European Low Frequency Survey (ELFS), a project that will enable foregrounds-free measurements of the primordial -mode polarization and a detection…

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.IM2024★ 9 cited

The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates

Junna Sugiyama, Tomoki Terasaki, Kana Sakaguri +16

The Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO' s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of…

astro-ph.CO2023

The European Low Frequency Survey

Aniello Mennella, Kam Arnold, Susanna Azzoni +18

In this paper we present the European Low Frequency Survey (ELFS), a project that will enable foregrounds-free measurements of primordial -mode polarization to a level 10…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 13 cited

The Simons Observatory: A fully remote controlled calibration system with a sparse wire grid for cosmic microwave background telescopes

Masaaki Murata, Hironobu Nakata, Kengo Iijima +16

For cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization observations, calibration of detector polarization angles is essential. We have developed a fully remote controlled calibration s…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Simons Observatory: Cryogenic Half Wave Plate Rotation Mechanism for the Small Aperture Telescopes

K. Yamada, B. Bixler, Y. Sakurai +24

We present the requirements, design and evaluation of the cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (CHWP) for the Simons Observatory (SO). SO is a cosmic microwave backgroun…