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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

1.5k citations · 2.3k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Design and experimental investigation of a planar metamaterial Silicon based lenslet

Thomas Gascard, Giampaolo Pisano, Simon Doyle +9

The next generations of ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will require polarisation sensitive, multichroic pixels of large focal planes comprising several thousa…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver

Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 25…

astro-ph.IM2020

Planar Silicon Metamaterial Lenslet Arrays for Millimeter-wavelength Imaging

Christopher M. McKenney, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +7

Large imaging arrays of detectors at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths have applications that include measurements of the faint polarization signal in the Cosmic Microwave B…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 79 cited

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 12 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…