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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: The Prime-Cam Instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope -- Overview and Status

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Yuhan Wang, Lawrence T. Lin +33

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), under construction at an elevation of 56…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G+: A Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment for the South Pole Telescope

T. Natoli, Z. Ahmed, H. Athreya +72

SPT-3G+ is the next survey receiver planned to be installed in early 2029 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). This new receiver will feature 6,020 polarization-sensitive di…

astro-ph.IM2026

Laser-micromachined silicon-platelet feedhorns for large-scale submillimeter and millimeter-wave focal planes

Jason E. Austermann, James Beall, Andrew Forsman +10

We present the fabrication and characterization of the first silicon-platelet feedhorn arrays produced using laser micromachining. First, we present a demonstration of the technolo…

astro-ph.IM2026

picoMUX: microcontroller based time-domain multiplexing readout for kilopixel TES arrays

Simon Tartakovsky, Alexandre E. Adler, Jason E. Austermann +23

Advances in cryogenic SQUID-based time-domain multiplexing (TDM) have outpaced their warm readout electronics. Next generation CMB telescopes are baselining kilopixel TES arrays wi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Sub-Kelvin Cryogenics for a Super-Pressure Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter: Taurus

Jared L. May, Alexandre E. Adler, Jason E. Austermann +23

Taurus is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment designed to operate more than 10,000 transition-edge sensor bolometers at a base temperature near 100 mK duri…

astro-ph.GA2026

The South Pole Telescope AGN Monitoring Campaign: First Release of SPTpol Bright AGN Light Curves

J. C. Hood, P. A. R. Ade, A. J. Anderson +66

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) collaboration has recently embarked upon a campaign to monitor the brightness of a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN), both in real time and in a…