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On-sky performance of the CLASS Q-band telescope
John W. Appel, Zhilei Xu, Ivan L. Padilla +34
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is mapping the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales () in search of a…
Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond
Sara M. Simon, Joseph E. Golec, Aamir Ali +21
The Simons Observatory (SO) will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in both temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and frequencies from 27-270…
Highly-multiplexed microwave SQUID readout using the SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency (SMuRF) Electronics for Future CMB and Sub-millimeter Surveys
Shawn W. Henderson, Zeeshan Ahmed, Jason Austermann +29
The next generation of cryogenic CMB and submillimeter cameras under development require densely instrumented sensor arrays to meet their science goals. The readout of large number…
Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Detector Array Effects
Kevin T. Crowley, Sara M. Simon, Max Silva-Feaver +36
In this proceeding, we present studies of instrumental systematic effects for the Simons Obsevatory (SO) that are associated with the detector system and its interaction with the f…
Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver Design Overview
Ningfeng Zhu, John L. Orlowski-Scherer, Zhilei Xu +31
The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover ang…
Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays
Nathan P. Lourie, Peter A. R. Ade, Francisco E. Angile +26
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight f…
The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview
Nicholas Galitzki, Aamir Ali, Kam S. Arnold +75
The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular…
Optical Design of PICO, a Concept for a Space Mission to Probe Inflation and Cosmic Origins
Karl Young, Marcelo Alvarez, Nicholas Battaglia +28
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a probe-class mission concept currently under study by NASA. PICO will probe the physics of the Big Bang and the energy scale of…
PICO - the probe of inflation and cosmic origins
Brian Sutin, Marcelo Alvarez, Nicholas Battaglia +31
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a NASA-funded study of a Probe-class mission concept. The top-level science objectives are to probe the physics of the Big Bang…
Cold optical design for the Large Aperture Simons Observatory telescope
S. R. Dicker, P. A. Gallardo, J. E Gudmundsson +26
The Simons Observatory will consist of a single large (6 m diameter) telescope and a number of smaller (0.5 m diameter) refracting telescopes designed to measure the polarization o…
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor Receiver Design
Jeffrey Iuliano, Joseph Eimer, Lucas Parker +42
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor consists of four instruments performing a CMB polarization survey. Currently, the 40 GHz and first 90 GHz instruments are deployed and ob…
Advanced ACTPol TES Device Parameters and Noise Performance in Fielded Arrays
Kevin T. Crowley, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi +14
The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) features arrays of aluminum manganese transition-edge sensors (TESes) optimized for ground-based obser…
BFORE: A CMB Balloon Payload to Measure Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation
Sean Bryan, Peter Ade, J. Richard Bond +21
BFORE is a high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB). During a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand, th…
Design and characterization of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 93 GHz focal plane
Sumit Dahal, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +44
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) aims to detect and characterize the primordial B-mode signal and make a sample-variance-limited measurement of the optical depth…
Variable-delay Polarization Modulators for the CLASS Telescopes
Kathleen Harrington, Joseph Eimer, David T. Chuss +43
The search for inflationary primordial gravitational waves and the measurement of the optical depth to reionization, both through their imprint on the large angular scale correlati…
Low Temperature Detectors for CMB Imaging Arrays
Johannes Hubmayr, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +9
We review advances in low temperature detector (LTD) arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiments, with a particular emphasis on imaging arrays. We briefly…
Prime-Cam: A first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +43
CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its no…
BoloCalc: a sensitivity calculator for the design of Simons Observatory
Charles A. Hill, Sarah Marie M. Bruno, Sara M. Simon +34
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming experiment that will study temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Atacama Desert in…
SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency (SMuRF) Electronics for Read Out of Frequency-Division-Multiplexed Cryogenic Sensors
S. A. Kernasovskiy, S. E. Kuenstner, E. Karpel +20
Large arrays of cryogenic sensors for various imaging applications ranging across x-ray, gamma-ray, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), mm/sub-mm, as well as particle detection incr…
Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond
J. E. Austermann, J. A. Beall, S. A. Bryan +10
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) provide a compelling path forward to the large-format polarimeter, imaging, and spectrometer arrays needed for next-generation experi…
The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout
The EBEX Collaboration, Maximilian Abitbol, Asad M. Aboobaker +37
EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and…
The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument
A. Suzuki, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +149
Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth…