5 papers
STARFIRE-2: Can we detect the global redshifted 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn in Earth orbit?
Yogen Pranesh, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Saurabh Singh
Detecting the redshifted global 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn (CD) remains a major challenge due to strong terrestrial Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), particularly dominate…
Site Quality Analysis for an Indian Submillimeter Telescope: A Reanalysis-Based Approach
Tanmay Singh, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Ritoban Basu Thakur
The Himalayan plateau region of Ladakh, India, is a potential host for a science-class submillimeter observatory, building on existing astronomical infrastructure near Hanle and Me…
The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…
PRATUSH experiment concept and design overview
Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Saurabh Singh, Srivani K S +9
PRATUSH -- Probing ReionizATion of the Universe using Signal from Hydrogen -- is a proposed cosmology experiment to detect the global red-shifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn…
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…