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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…
Development of the characterization methods without electrothermal feedback for TES bolometers for CMB measurements
Yume Nishinomiya, Akito Kusaka, Kenji Kiuchi +6
Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are used for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. We used a testbed to evaluate the thermal performance of TES bo…
Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module
Erin Healy, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold +28
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama…
The Simons Observatory 220 and 280 GHz Focal-Plane Module: Design and Initial Characterization
Erin Healy, Daniel Dutcher, Zachary Atkins +16
The Simons Observatory (SO) will detect and map the temperature and polarization of the millimeter-wavelength sky from Cerro Toco, Chile across a range of angular scales, providing…
The 90 and 150 GHz universal focal-plane modules for the Simons Observatory
Heather McCarrick, Kam Arnold, Zachary Atkins +21
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of telescopes located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background. There are a ho…
The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module
Zachary B. Huber, Yaqiong Li, Eve M. Vavagiakis +14
The Simons Observatory (SO) includes four telescopes that will measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background using over 60,000 highly sensitive transi…
Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program
Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng, Zachary Atkins +20
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background instrument to be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will deploy 60,000 transition-edge sensor bolome…
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…
The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)
Zhilei Xu, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade +57
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at …
The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Ningfeng Zhu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +68
The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The…
Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview
Kenji Kiuchi, Shunsuke Adachi, Aamir M. Ali +51
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-apert…
The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) Integration and Validation Results
Zhilei Xu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +42
The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The observatory consists of three 0.5 m Small Apertur…
The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +30
The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe…
A Microwave SQUID Multiplexer Optimized for Bolometric Applications
B. Dober, Z. Ahmed, K. Arnold +27
A microwave SQUID multiplexer (MUX) has been optimized for coupling to large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We present the scalable cryogenic…
Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout -- Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design
Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Aamir Ali +33
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarization-sensitive Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment on the Cerro Toco Plateau (Chile) with large overlap with other optic…
Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory
Aamir M. Ali, Shunsuke Adachi, Kam Arnold +49
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located on Cerro Toco, Chile, that will map the microwave sky in temperature and polarizatio…
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…
Design and performance of dual-polarization lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors for millimeter-wave polarimetry
H. McCarrick, G. Jones, B. R. Johnson +11
Lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) are an attractive technology for millimeter-wave observations that require large arrays of extremely low-noise detectors. We de…
High quality factor manganese-doped aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors sensitive to frequencies below 100 GHz
G. Jones, B. R. Johnson, M. H. Abitbol +12
Aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) sensitive to millimeter-wave photons have been shown to exhibit high quality factors, making them highly sensitive and…
Magnetic field dependence of the internal quality factor and noise performance of lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors
Daniel Flanigan, Bradley R. Johnson, Maximilian H. Abitbol +8
We present a technique for increasing the internal quality factor of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) by nulling ambient magnetic fields with a properly applied magnetic field.…
Polarization Sensitive Multi-Chroic MKIDs
Bradley R. Johnson, Daniel Flanigan, Maximilian H. Abitbol +18
We report on the development of scalable prototype microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays tailored for future multi-kilo-pixel experiments that are designed to simulta…
Development of dual-polarization LEKIDs for CMB observations
Heather McCarrick, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Peter A. R. Ade +14
We discuss the design considerations and initial measurements from arrays of dual-polarization, lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) nominally designed for cosmic m…
A Titanium Nitride Absorber for Controlling Optical Crosstalk in Horn-Coupled Aluminum LEKID Arrays for Millimeter Wavelengths
H. McCarrick, D. Flanigan, G. Jones +15
We discuss the design and measured performance of a titanium nitride (TiN) mesh absorber we are developing for controlling optical crosstalk in horn-coupled lumped-element kinetic…
Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors
Daniel Flanigan, Heather McCarrick, Glenn Jones +18
We report photon-noise limited performance of horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors at millimeter wavelengths. The detectors are illuminated by a milli…