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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…

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★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps

Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163

We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169

We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 11 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

The Simons Observatory: Beam characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes

Nadia Dachlythra, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jon E. Gudmundsson +27

We use time-domain simulations of Jupiter observations to test and develop a beam reconstruction pipeline for the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes. The method relies on…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measurement and Analysis of 1D Beams for DR4

Marius Lungu, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield +28

We describe the measurement and treatment of the telescope beams for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope's fourth data release, DR4. Observations of Uranus are used to measure the cent…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol

Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +24

The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays t…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 271 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho +136

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg of the 2013-2016 survey, which cove…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 629 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin +138

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 111 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A CMB lensing mass map over 2100 square degrees of sky and its cross-correlation with BOSS-CMASS galaxies

Omar Darwish, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Blake Sherwin +50

We construct cosmic microwave background lensing mass maps using data from the 2014 and 2015 seasons of observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). These maps cover 21…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 84 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence

Toshiya Namikawa, Yilun Guan, Omar Darwish +51

We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 103 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Colin Hill, Sigurd Naess +51

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at th…

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.CO2018★ 48 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-season ACTPol Extragalactic Point Sources and their Polarization properties

Rahul Datta, Simone Aiola, Steve K. Choi +30

We report on measurements of the polarization of extragalactic sources at 148 GHz made during the first two seasons of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization (ACTPol) survey.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 22 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2018

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…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 4 cited

Cooldown Strategies and Transient Thermal Simulations for the Simons Observatory

Gabriele Coppi, Zhilei Xu, Aamir Ali +19

The Simons Observatory (SO) will provide precision polarimetry of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales from arc-minute…