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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2026

LiteBIRD Mission Overview after Mission Reformation

LiteBIRD Collaboration, K. Aizawa, H. Akamatsu +172

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led space mission designed to produce all-sky microwave polarization maps. Its primary science goal is to test representative inflationary models by measuring th…

astro-ph.CO2026

Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in 5 year data from the SPT-3G Main Survey

L. E. Bleem, M. Klein, K. Kornoelje +148

We report a new galaxy cluster catalog, selected using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, from 5 years of observations of the SPT-3G Main field. Drawn from arcminute-resol…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on Inflationary Gravitational Waves with Two Years of SPT-3G Data

J. A. Zebrowski, C. L. Reichardt, A. J. Anderson +95

We present a measurement of the -mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies at 32 502 for three bands centered at 95, 150,…

astro-ph.CO2024

Multiprobe Cosmology from the Abundance of SPT Clusters and DES Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

S. Bocquet, S. Grandis, E. Krause +216

Cosmic shear, galaxy clustering, and the abundance of massive halos each probe the large-scale structure of the Universe in complementary ways. We present cosmological constraints…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Detection of Thermal Emission at Millimeter Wavelengths from Low-Earth Orbit Satellites

A. Foster, A. Chokshi, A. J. Anderson +88

The detection of artificial satellite thermal emission at millimeter wavelengths is presented using data from the 3rd-Generation receiver on the South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). This…

astro-ph.IM2024

The LiteBIRD mission to explore cosmic inflation

T. Ghigna, A. Adler, K. Aizawa +156

LiteBIRD, the next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, aims for a launch in Japan's fiscal year 2032, marking a major advancement in the exploration of primord…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Development of the Low Frequency Telescope focal plane detector arrays for LiteBIRD

Tommaso Ghigna, Aritoki Suzuki, Benjamin Westbrook +12

LiteBIRD, a forthcoming JAXA mission, aims to accurately study the microwave sky within the 40-400 GHz frequency range divided into 15 distinct nominal bands. The primary objective…

astro-ph.IM2024

Calibration of detector time constant with a thermal source for the POLARBEAR-2A CMB polarization experiment

S. Takatori, M. Hasegawa, M. Hazumi +22

The Simons Array (SA) project is a ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment. The SA observes the sky using three telescopes, and POLARBEAR-2A (PB-2A)…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 67 cited

A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using SPT-3G 2018 Data

Z. Pan, F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu +133

We present a measurement of gravitational lensing over 1500 deg of the Southern sky using SPT-3G temperature data at 95 and 150 GHz taken in 2018. The lensing amplitude relativ…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 23 cited

Tensor-to-scalar ratio forecasts for extended LiteBIRD frequency configurations

U. Fuskeland, J. Aumont, R. Aurlien +114

LiteBIRD is a planned JAXA-led CMB B-mode satellite experiment aiming for launch in the late 2020s, with a primary goal of detecting the imprint of primordial inflationary gravitat…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 37 cited

The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status

B. Westbrook, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +90

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic mic…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck III: Combined cosmological constraints

T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, A. Alarcon +168

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of two-point correlation functions between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 dat…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 12 cited

Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper

Kevork Abazajian, Arwa Abdulghafour, Graeme E. Addison +353

This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin a…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 13 cited

Asteroid Measurements at Millimeter Wavelengths with the South Pole Telescope

P. M. Chichura, A. Foster, C. Patel +141

We present the first measurements of asteroids in millimeter wavelength (mm) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is used primarily to study the cosmic microwave backgro…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 15 cited

Performance and characterization of the SPT-3G digital frequency-domain multiplexed readout system using an improved noise and crosstalk model

J. Montgomery, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +118

The third generation South Pole Telescope camera (SPT-3G) improves upon its predecessor (SPTpol) by an order of magnitude increase in detectors on the focal plane. The technology u…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission

L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD

Y. Sekimoto, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +232

LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization over the full sky at large angular…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 271 cited

CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves

S4 Collaboration, Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E. Addison +233

CMB-S4---the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment---is set to significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and enhance our underst…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 70 cited

Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol

F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade +69

We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 76 cited

Millimeter-wave Point Sources from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ Survey: Catalog and Population Statistics

W. B. Everett, L. Zhang, T. M. Crawford +45

We present a catalog of emissive point sources detected in the SPT-SZ survey, a contiguous 2530-square-degree area surveyed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) from 2008 - 2011 in…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 117 cited

An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys

C. L. Reichardt, S. Patil, P. A. R. Ade +74

We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular multipole range (angular scales ). By addi…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 78 cited

Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

H. Sugai, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +216

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their app…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 2 cited

Particle Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

J. S. Avva, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +85

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information about the content and evolution of the universe. The presence of light, weakly interacting particles impacts the expansion…