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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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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…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 22 cited

Microwave multiplexing on the Keck Array

Ari Cukierman, Zeeshan Ahmed, Shawn Henderson +82

We describe an on-sky demonstration of a microwave-multiplexing readout system in one of the receivers of the Keck Array, a polarimetry experiment observing the cosmic microwave ba…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 72 cited

PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins

S. Hanany, M. Alvarez, E. Artis +79

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a proposed probe-scale space mission consisting of an imaging polarimeter operating in frequency bands between 20 and 800 GHz. W…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead +222

We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consid…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Research and Development for HI Intensity Mapping

Zeeshan Ahmed, David Alonso, Mustafa A. Amin +51

Development of the hardware, data analysis, and simulation techniques for large compact radio arrays dedicated to mapping the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen gas has proven to be mo…

astro-ph.IM2019

Packed Ultra-wideband Mapping Array (PUMA): A Radio Telescope for Cosmology and Transients

Kevin Bandura, Emanuele Castorina, Liam Connor +23

PUMA is a proposal for an ultra-wideband, low-resolution and transit interferometric radio telescope operating at . Its design is driven by six science goal…

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.IM2019★ 443 cited

CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan

Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead +222

We present the science case, reference design, and project plan for the Stage-4 ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4.

astro-ph.IM2019★ 23 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Dataset

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +76

Precision measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require extreme control of instrumental systematics. In a companion paper we have presented cosmological co…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 54 cited

Primordial Non-Gaussianity

P. Daniel Meerburg, Daniel Green, Muntazir Abidi +175

Our current understanding of the Universe is established through the pristine measurements of structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the distribution and shapes of…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 45 cited

Messengers from the Early Universe: Cosmic Neutrinos and Other Light Relics

Daniel Green, Mustafa A. Amin, Joel Meyers +136

The hot dense environment of the early universe is known to have produced large numbers of baryons, photons, and neutrinos. These extreme conditions may have also produced other lo…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 45 cited

PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins

Shaul Hanany, Marcelo Alvarez, Emmanuel Artis +79

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce f…