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1. The Simons Observatory: science goals andforecasts

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Peter Ade, James Aguirre, Zeeshan Ahmed, Simone Aiola, Aamir Ali, David Alonso, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton, Jason Austermann, Humna Awan, Carlo Baccigalupi, Taylor Baildon, Darcy Barron, Nick Battaglia, Richard Battye, Eric Baxter, Andrew Bazarko, James A. Beall, Rachel Bean, Dominic Beck, Shawn Beckman, Benjamin Beringue, Federico Bianchini, Steven Boada, David Boettger, J. Richard Bond, Julian Borrill, Michael L. Brown, Sarah Marie Bruno, Sean Bryan, Erminia Calabrese, Victoria Calafut, Paolo Calisse, Julien Carron, Anthony Challinor, Grace Chesmore, Yuji Chinone, Jens Chluba, Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho, Steve Choi, Gabriele Coppi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin Coughlin, Devin Crichton, Kevin D. Crowley, Kevin T. Crowley, Ari Cukierman, John M. D'Ewart, Rolando Dünner, Tijmen de Haan, Mark Devlin, Simon Dicker, Joy Didier, Matt Dobbs, Bradley Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon Duff, Adri Duivenvoorden, Jo Dunkley, John Dusatko, Josquin Errard, Giulio Fabbian, Stephen Feeney, Simone Ferraro, Pedro Fluxà, Katherine Freese, Josef C. Frisch, Andrei Frolov, George Fuller, Brittany Fuzia, Nicholas Galitzki, Patricio A. Gallardo, Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi, Jiansong Gao, Eric Gawiser, Martina Gerbino, Vera Gluscevic, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Joseph Golec, Sam Gordon, Megan Gralla, Daniel Green, Arpi Grigorian, John Groh, Chris Groppi, Yilun Guan, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Dongwon Han, Peter Hargrave, Masaya Hasegawa, Matthew Hasselfield, Makoto Hattori, Victor Haynes, Masashi Hazumi, Yizhou He, Erin Healy, Shawn W. Henderson, Carlos Hervias-Caimapo, Charles A. Hill, J. Colin Hill, Gene Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Gary Hinshaw, Renée Hložek, Shirley Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Logan Howe, Zhiqi Huang, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Anna Ijjas, Margaret Ikape, Kent Irwin, Andrew H. Jaffe, Bhuvnesh Jain, Oliver Jeong, Daisuke Kaneko, Ethan D. Karpel, Nobuhiko Katayama, Brian Keating, Sarah S. Kernasovskiy, Reijo Keskitalo, Theodore Kisner, Kenji Kiuchi, Jeff Klein, Kenda Knowles, Brian Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Stephen E. Kuenstner, Chao-Lin Kuo, Akito Kusaka, Jacob Lashner, Adrian Lee, Eunseong Lee, David Leon, Jason S.-Y. Leung, Antony Lewis, Yaqiong Li, Zack Li, Michele Limon, Eric Linder, Carlos Lopez-Caraballo, Thibaut Louis, Lindsay Lowry, Marius Lungu, Mathew Madhavacheril, Daisy Mak, Felipe Maldonado, Hamdi Mani, Ben Mates, Frederick Matsuda, Loïc Maurin, Phil Mauskopf, Andrew May, Nialh McCallum, Chris McKenney, Jeff McMahon, P. Daniel Meerburg, Joel Meyers, Amber Miller, Mark Mirmelstein, Kavilan Moodley, Moritz Munchmeyer, Charles Munson, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Martin Navaroli, Laura Newburgh, Ho Nam Nguyen, Michael Niemack, Haruki Nishino, John Orlowski-Scherer, Lyman Page, Bruce Partridge, Julien Peloton, Francesca Perrotta, Lucio Piccirillo, Giampaolo Pisano, Davide Poletti, Roberto Puddu, Giuseppe Puglisi, Chris Raum, Christian L. Reichardt, Mathieu Remazeilles, Yoel Rephaeli, Dominik Riechers, Felipe Rojas, Anirban Roy, Sharon Sadeh, Yuki Sakurai, Maria Salatino, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Emmanuel Schaan, Marcel Schmittfull, Neelima Sehgal, Joseph Seibert, Uros Seljak, Blake Sherwin, Meir Shimon, Carlos Sierra, Jonathan Sievers, Precious Sikhosana, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Adrian Sinclair, Praween Siritanasak, Kendrick Smith, Stephen R. Smith, David Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, George Stein, Jason R. Stevens, Radek Stompor, Aritoki Suzuki, Osamu Tajima, Satoru Takakura, Grant Teply, Daniel B. Thomas, Ben Thorne, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Calvin Tsai, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Sunny Vagnozzi, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff Van Lanen, Daniel D. Van Winkle, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Clara Vergès, Michael Vissers, Kasey Wagoner, Samantha Walker, Jon Ward, Ben Westbrook, Nathan Whitehorn, Jason Williams, Joel Williams, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Byeonghee Yu, Cyndia Yu, Fernando Zago, Hezi Zhang, and Ningfeng Zhu

Subjects
Astrophysics, Astronomy
Abstract

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 scientific goals of the experiment, motivate the design, and forecast its performance. SO will measure the temperature and polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background in six frequency bands centered at: 27, 39, 93, 145, 225 and 280 GHz. The initial configuration of SO will have three small-aperture 0.5-m telescopes and one large-aperture 6-m telescope, with a total of 60,000 cryogenic bolometers. Our key science goals are to characterize the primordial perturbations, measure the number of relativistic species and the mass of neutrinos, test for deviations from a cosmological constant, improve our understanding of galaxy evolution, and constrain the duration of reionization. The small aperture telescopes will target the largest angular scales observable from Chile, mapping ≈ 10% of the sky to a white noise level of 2 μK-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, to measure the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, at a target level of σ(r)=0.003. The large aperture telescope will map ≈ 40% of the sky at arcminute angular resolution to an expected white noise level of 6 μK-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, overlapping with the majority of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope sky region and partially with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. With up to an order of magnitude lower polarization noise than maps from the Planck satellite, the high-resolution sky maps will constrain cosmological parameters derived from the damping tail, gravitational lensing of the microwave background, the primordial bispectrum, and the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, and will aid in delensing the large-angle polarization signal to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio. The survey will also provide a legacy catalog of 16,000 galaxy clusters and more than 20,000 extragalactic sources.

Published
2019
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2. The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts

Author

Peter Ade, James Aguirre, Zeeshan Ahmed, Simone Aiola, Aamir Ali, David Alonso, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton, Jason Austermann, Humna Awan, Carlo Baccigalupi, Taylor Baildon, Darcy Barron, Nick Battaglia, Richard Battye, Eric Baxter, Andrew Bazarko, James A. Beall, Rachel Bean, Dominic Beck, Shawn Beckman, Benjamin Beringue, Federico Bianchini, Steven Boada, David Boettger, J. Richard Bond, Julian Borrill, Michael L. Brown, Sarah Marie Bruno, Sean Bryan, Erminia Calabrese, Victoria Calafut, Paolo Calisse, Julien Carron, Anthony Challinor, Grace Chesmore, Yuji Chinone, Jens Chluba, Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho, Steve Choi, Gabriele Coppi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin Coughlin, Devin Crichton, Kevin D. Crowley, Kevin T. Crowley, Ari Cukierman, John M. D’Ewart, Rolando D ̈unner, Tijmen de Haan, Mark Devlin, Simon Dicker, Joy Didier, Matt Dobbs, Bradley Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon Duff, Adri Duivenvoorden, Jo Dunkley, John Dusatko, Josquin Errard, Giulio Fabbian, Stephen Feeney, Simone Ferraro, Pedro Fluxa, Katherine Freese, Josef C. Frisch, Andrei Frolov, George Fuller, Brittany Fuzia, Nicholas Galitzki, Patricio A. Gallardo, Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi, Jiansong Gao, Eric Gawiser, Martina Gerbino, Vera Gluscevic, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Joseph Golec, Sam Gordon, Megan Gralla, Daniel Green, Arpi Grigorian, John Groh, Chris Groppi, Yilun Guan, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Dongwon Han, Peter Hargrave, Masaya Hasegawa, Matthew Hasselfield, Makoto Hattori, Victor Haynes, Masashi Hazumi, Yizhou He, Erin Healy, Shawn W. Henderson, Carlos Hervias-Caimapo, Charles A. Hill, J. Colin Hill7, Gene Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Gary Hinshaw, Renee Hlozek, Shirley Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Logan Howe, Zhiqi Huang, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Anna Ijjas, Margaret Ikape, Kent Irwin, Andrew H. Jaffe, Bhuvnesh Jain, Oliver Jeong, Daisuke Kaneko, Ethan D. Karpel, Nobuhiko Katayama, Brian Keating, Sarah S. Kernasovskiy, Reijo Keskitalo, Theodore Kisner, Kenji Kiuchi, Jeff Klein, Kenda Knowles, Brian Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Stephen E. Kuenstner, Chao-Lin Kuo, Akito Kusaka, Jacob Lashner, Adrian Lee, Eunseong Lee, David Leon, Jason S.-Y. Leung, Antony Lewis, Yaqiong Li6 Zack Li, Michele Limon, Eric Linder, Carlos Lopez-Caraballo, Thibaut Louis, Lindsay Lowry, Marius Lungu, Mathew Madhavacheril, Daisy Mak, Felipe Maldonado, Hamdi Mani, Ben Mates, Frederick Matsuda, Loıc Maurin, Phil Mauskopf, Andrew May, Nialh McCallum, Chris McKenney, Jeff McMahon, P. Daniel Meerburg, Joel Meyers, Amber Miller, Mark Mirmelstein, Kavilan Moodley, Moritz Munchmeyer, Charles Munson, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Martin Navaroli, Laura Newburgh, Ho Nam Nguyen, Michael Niemack, Haruki Nishino, John Orlowski-Scherer, Lyman Page, Bruce Partridge, Julien Peloton, Francesca Perrotta, Lucio Piccirillo, Giampaolo Pisano, Davide Poletti, Roberto Puddu, Giuseppe Puglisi, Chris Raum, Christian L. Reichardt, Mathieu Remazeilles, Yoel Rephaeli, Dominik Riechers, Felipe Rojas, Anirban Roy, Sharon Sadeh, Yuki Sakurai, Maria Salatino, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Emmanuel Schaan, Marcel Schmittfull, Neelima Sehgal, Joseph Seibert, Uros Seljak, Blake Sherwin, Meir Shimon, Carlos Sierra, Jonathan Sievers, Precious Sikhosana, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Adrian Sinclair, Praween Siritanasak, Kendrick Smith, Stephen R. Smith, David Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, George Stein, Jason R. Stevens, Radek Stompor, Aritoki Suzuki, Osamu Tajima, Satoru Takakura, Grant Teply, Daniel B. Thomas, Ben Thorne, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Calvin Tsai, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Sunny Vagnozzi, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff Van Lanen, Daniel D. Van Winkle, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Clara Verges, Michael Vissers, Kasey Wagoner, Samantha Walker, Jon Ward, Ben Westbrook, Nathan Whitehorn, Jason Williams, Joel Williams, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Byeonghee Yu, Cyndia Yu, Fernando Zago, Hezi Zhang, and Ningfeng Zhu

Subjects
Astronomy
Abstract

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on CerroToco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scientific goals of the experiment, motivate the design, and forecast its performance. SO will measure the temperature and polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background in six frequency bands centered at: 27,39, 93, 145, 225 and 280 GHz. The initial configuration of SO will have three small-aperture 0.5-mtelescopes and one large-aperture 6-m telescope, with a total of 60,000 cryogenic bolometers. Our key science goals are to characterize the primordial perturbations, measure the number of relativistic species and the mass of neutrinos, test for deviations from a cosmological constant, improve our understanding of galaxy evolution, and constrain the duration of reionization. The small aperture telescopes will target the largest angular scales observable from Chile, mapping≈10% of the sky to a white noise level of 2μK-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, to measure the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, at a target level ofσ(r) = 0.003. The large aperture telescope will map ≈40% of the sky at arcminute angular resolution to an expected white noise level of 6μK-arcminin combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, overlapping with the majority of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope sky region and partially with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. With up to an order of magnitude lower polarization noise than maps from the Planck satellite, the high-resolution sky maps will constrain cosmological parameters derived from the damping tail, gravitational lensing of the microwave background, the primordial bispectrum, and the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effects, and will aid in delensing the large-angle polarization signal to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio. The survey will also provide a legacy catalog of 16,000 galaxy clusters and more than20,000 extragalactic sources.

Published
2019
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3. The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 APC Whitepaper

Author

Abitbol, Maximilian H., Shunsuke, Adachi, Peter, Ade, James, Aguirre, Zeeshan, Ahmed, Simone, Aiola, Aamir, Ali, David, Alonso, Alvarez, Marcelo A., Kam, Arnold, Peter, Ashton, Zachary, Atkins, Jason, Austermann, Humna, Awan, Carlo, Baccigalupi, Taylor, Baildon, Anton Baleato Lizancos, Darcy, Barron, Nick, Battaglia, Richard, Battye, Eric, Baxter, Andrew, Bazarko, Beall, James A., Rachel, Bean, Dominic, Beck, Shawn, Beckman, Benjamin, Beringue, Tanay, Bhandarkar, Sanah, Bhimani, Federico, Bianchini, Steven, Boada, David, Boettger, Boris, Bolliet, Richard Bond, J., Julian, Borrill, Brown, Michael L., Sarah Marie Bruno, Sean, Bryan, Erminia, Calabrese, Victoria, Calafut, Paolo, Calisse, Julien, Carron, Carl, Fred. M., Juan, Cayuso, Anthony, Challinor, Grace, Chesmore, Yuji, Chinone, Jens, Chluba, Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho, Steve, Choi, Susan, Clark, Philip, Clarke, Carlo, Contaldi, Gabriele, Coppi, Cothard, Nicholas F., Kevin, Coughlin, Will, Coulton, Devin, Crichton, Crowley, Kevin D., Crowley, Kevin T., Ari, Cukierman, D'Ewart, John M., Rolando, Dünner, Tijmen de Haan, Mark, Devlin, Simon, Dicker, Bradley, Dober, Duell, Cody J., Shannon, Duff, Adri, Duivenvoorden, Dunkley, Jo, Hamza El Bouhargani, Josquin, Errard, Giulio, Fabbian, Stephen, Feeney, James, Fergusson, Simone, Ferraro, Pedro, Fluxà, Katherine, Freese, Frisch, Josef C., Andrei, Frolov, George, Fuller, Nicholas, Galitzki, Gallardo, Patricio A., Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi, Jiansong, Gao, Eric, Gawiser, Martina, Gerbino, Vera, Gluscevic, Neil, Goeckner-Wald, Joseph, Golec, Sam, Gordon, Megan, Gralla, Daniel, Green, Arpi, Grigorian, John, Groh, Chris, Groppi, Yilun, Guan, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Mark, Halpern, Dongwon, Han, Peter, Hargrave, Kathleen, Harrington, Masaya, Hasegawa, Matthew, Hasselfield, Makoto, Hattori, Victor, Haynes, Masashi, Hazumi, Erin, Healy, Henderson, Shawn W., Brandon, Hensley, Carlos, Hervias-Caimapo, Hill, Charles A., Colin Hill, J., Gene, Hilton, Matt, Hilton, Hincks, Adam D., Gary, Hinshaw, Renée, Hložek, Shirley, Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Hoang, Thuong D., Jonathan, Hoh, Hotinli, Selim C., Zhiqi, Huang, Johannes, Hubmayr, Kevin, Huffenberger, Hughes, John P., Anna, Ijjas, Margaret, Ikape, Kent, Irwin, Jaffe, Andrew H., Bhuvnesh, Jain, Oliver, Jeong, Matthew, Johnson, Daisuke, Kaneko, Karpel, Ethan D., Nobuhiko, Katayama, Brian, Keating, Reijo, Keskitalo, Theodore, Kisner, Kenji, Kiuchi, Jeff, Klein, Kenda, Knowles, Anna, Kofman, Brian, Koopman, Arthur, Kosowsky, Nicoletta, Krachmalnicoff, Akito, Kusaka, Phil, Laplante, Jacob, Lashner, Adrian, Lee, Eunseong, Lee, Antony, Lewis, Yaqiong, Li, Zack, Li, Michele, Limon, Eric, Linder, Jia, Liu, Carlos, Lopez-Caraballo, Thibaut, Louis, Marius, Lungu, Mathew, Madhavacheril, Daisy, Mak, Felipe, Maldonado, Hamdi, Mani, Ben, Mates, Frederick, Matsuda, Loïc, Maurin, Phil, Mauskopf, Andrew, May, Nialh, Mccallum, Heather, Mccarrick, Chris, Mckenney, Jeff, Mcmahon, Daniel Meerburg, P., James, Mertens, Joel, Meyers, Amber, Miller, Mark, Mirmelstein, Kavilan, Moodley, Jenna, Moore, Moritz, Munchmeyer, Charles, Munson, Masaaki, Murata, Sigurd, Naess, Toshiya, Namikawa, Federico, Nati, Martin, Navaroli, Laura, Newburgh, Ho Nam Nguyen, Andrina, Nicola, Mike, Niemack, Haruki, Nishino, Yume, Nishinomiya, John, Orlowski-Scherer, Luca, Pagano, Bruce, Partridge, Francesca, Perrotta, Phumlani, Phakathi, Lucio, Piccirillo, Elena, Pierpaoli, Giampaolo, Pisano, Davide, Poletti, Roberto, Puddu, Giuseppe, Puglisi, Chris, Raum, Reichardt, Christian L., Mathieu, Remazeilles, Yoel, Rephaeli, Dominik, Riechers, Felipe, Rojas, Aditya, Rotti, Anirban, Roy, Sharon, Sadeh, Yuki, Sakurai, Maria, Salatino, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Lauren, Saunders, Emmanuel, Schaan, Marcel, Schmittfull, Neelima, Sehgal, Joseph, Seibert, Uros, Seljak, Paul, Shellard, Blake, Sherwin, Meir, Shimon, Carlos, Sierra, Jonathan, Sievers, Cristobal, Sifon, Precious, Sikhosana, Maximiliano, Silva-Feaver, Simon, Sara M., Adrian, Sinclair, Kendrick, Smith, Wuhyun, Sohn, Rita, Sonka, David, Spergel, Jacob, Spisak, Staggs, Suzanne T., George, Stein, Stevens, Jason R., Radek, Stompor, Aritoki, Suzuki, Osamu, Tajima, Satoru, Takakura, Grant, Teply, Thomas, Daniel B., Ben, Thorne, Robert, Thornton, Trac, Hy, Jesse, Treu, Calvin, Tsai, Carole, Tucker, Joel, Ullom, Vagnozzi, Sunny, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff Van Lanen, Van Winkle, Daniel D., Vavagiakis, Eve M., Clara, Vergès, Michael, Vissers, Kasey, Wagoner, Samantha, Walker, Yuhan, Wang, Jon, Ward, Ben, Westbrook, Nathan, Whitehorn, Jason, Williams, Joel, Williams, Edward, Wollack, Zhilei, Xu, Siavash, Yasini, Edward, Young, Byeonghee, Yu, Cyndia, Yu, Fernando, Zago, Mario, Zannoni, Hezi, Zhang, Kaiwen, Zheng, Ningfeng, Zhu, and Andrea, Zonca

Published
2019

4. Modeling effects of common molecular contaminants on the Euclid infrared detectors

Author

Gennadiy N. Lotkin, Remi Barbier, Anne Ealet, Roger Foltz, Analia N. Cillis, Murzy D. Jhabvala, Laddawan Miko, N. Ferraro, Jason Williams, T. Powers, Hyung Cho, Olivia R. Dawson, Em. Kan, Duncan M. Kahle, Augustyn Waczynski, L. Nguyen, J.-C. Clemens, Michael Hickey, F. Wang, S. McClure, P. Strada, Michael Seiffert, Thierry Maciaszek, Ulf E. Israelsson, Gregory Delo, Emily Kan, T. Hwang, K. Turck, Eric Prieto, Warren Holmes, A. Feizi, C. Weber, Carole Tucker, Chris McKenney, T. Goodsall, S. Pravdo, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Space Institute [Lyngby] (DTU Space), Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] (DTU), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), EUClID, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)

Subjects
010302 applied physics, Materials science, Spacecraft, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, 02 engineering and technology, Cryopump, engineering.material, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Optics, Coating, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, engineering, Quantum efficiency, Area density, Infrared detector, 0210 nano-technology, business, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
Abstract

International audience; Cleanliness specifications for infrared detector arrays are usually so stringent that effects are neglibile. However, the specifications determine only the level of particulates and areal density of molecular layer on the surface, but the chemical composition of these contaminants are not specified. Here, we use a model to assess the impact on system quantum efficiency from possible contaminants that could accidentally transfer or cryopump to the detector during instrument or spacecraft testing and on orbit operation. Contaminant layers thin enough to meet typical specifications, < 0.5μgram/cm2, have a negligible effect on the net quantum efficiency of the detector, provided that the contaminant does not react with the detector surface, Performance impacts from these contaminant plating onto the surface become important for thicknesses 5 - 50μgram/cm2. Importantly, detectable change in the "ripple" of the anti reflection coating occurs at these coverages and can enhance the system quantum efficiency. This is a factor 10 less coverage for which loss from molecular absorption lines is important. Thus, should contamination be suspected during instrument test or flight, detailed modelling of the layer on the detector and response to very well known calibrations sources would be useful to determine the impact on detector performance

Published
2016

5. Anti-reflection coatings for submillimeter silicon lenses

Author

Gordon J. Stacey, Patricio A. Gallardo, Philip R. Maloney, Rahul Datta, C. Darren Dowell, Jeffery J. McMahon, Jordan Wheeler, Stephen C. Parshley, Michael D. Niemack, Chris McKenney, Spencer Brugger, German Cortes-Medellin, Charles Munson, Jason Glenn, Brian J. Koopman, Sunil Golwala, Holland, Wayne S., and Zmuidzinas, Jonas

Subjects
Fabrication, Materials science, Silicon, business.industry, chemistry.chemical_element, engineering.material, chemistry.chemical_compound, Optical coating, Optics, Parylene, chemistry, Coating, engineering, Deep reactive-ion etching, Wafer dicing, Wafer, business
Abstract

Low-loss lenses are required for submillimeter astronomical applications, such as instrumentation for CCAT, a 25 m diameter telescope to be built at an elevation of 18,400 ft in Chile. Silicon is a leading candidate for dielectric lenses due to its low transmission loss and high index of refraction; however, the latter can lead to large reflection losses. Additionally, large diameter lenses (up to 40 cm), with substantial curvature present a challenge for fabrication of antireflection coatings. Three anti-reflection coatings are considered: a deposited dielectric coating of Parylene C, fine mesh structures cut with a dicing saw, and thin etched silicon layers (fabricated with deep reactive ion etching) for bonding to lenses. Modeling, laboratory measurements, and practicalities of fabrication for the three coatings are presented and compared. Measurements of the Parylene C anti-reflection coating were found to be consistent with previous studies and can be expected to result in a 6% transmission loss for each interface from 0.787 to 0.908 THz. The thin etched silicon layers and fine mesh structure anti-reflection coatings were designed and fabricated on test silicon wafers and found to have reflection losses less than 1% at each interface from 0.787 to 0.908 THz. The thin etched silicon layers are our preferred method because of high transmission efficiency while having an intrinsically faster fabrication time than fine structures cut with dicing saws, though much work remains to adapt the etched approach to curved surfaces and optics < 4" in diameter unlike the diced coatings.

Published
2014

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