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1. The Simons Observatory: Beam Characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes

Author: Nadia Dachlythra, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Matthew Hasselfield, Gabriele Coppi, Alexandre E. Adler, David Alonso, Susanna Azzoni, Grace E. Chesmore, Giulio Fabbian, Ken Ganga, Remington G. Gerras, Andrew H. Jaffe, Bradley R. Johnson, Brian Keating, Reijo Keskitalo, Theodore S. Kisner, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Marius Lungu, Frederick Matsuda, Sigurd Naess, Lyman Page, Roberto Puddu, Giuseppe Puglisi, Sara M. Simon, Grant Teply, Tran Tsan, Edward J. Wollack, Kevin Wolz, and Zhilei Xu
Subjects: Cosmic microwave background radiation, Calibration, Cosmology, Ground telescopes, Astronomical detectors, Astronomical instrumentation, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: 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 a mapmaker that estimates and subtracts correlated atmospheric noise and a beam fitting code designed to compensate for the bias caused by the mapmaker. We test our reconstruction performance for four different frequency bands against various algorithmic parameters, atmospheric conditions, and input beams. We additionally show the reconstruction quality as a function of the number of available observations and investigate how different calibration strategies affect the beam uncertainty. For all of the cases considered, we find good agreement between the fitted results and the input beam model within an ∼1.5% error for a multipole range ℓ = 30–700 and an ∼0.5% error for a multipole range ℓ = 50–200. We conclude by using a harmonic-domain component separation algorithm to verify that the beam reconstruction errors and biases observed in our analysis do not significantly bias the Simons Observatory r -measurement
Published: 2024
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2. Simons Observatory: Characterizing the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver with Radio Holography

Author: Grace. E. Chesmore, Kathleen Harrington, Carlos E. Sierra, Patricio A. Gallardo, Shreya Sutariya, Tommy Alford, Alexandre E. Adler, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi, Nadia Dachlythra, Joseph Golec, Jon Gudmundsson, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Bradley R. Johnson, Anna M. Kofman, Jeffrey Iuliano, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Roberto Puddu, Max Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Julia Robe, Edward J. Wollack, and Zhilei Xu
Subjects: Optics, Instrumentation and Photography
Abstract: We present near-field radio holography measurements of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver optics. These measurements demonstrate that radio holography of complex millimeter-wave optical systems comprising cryogenic lenses, filters, and feed horns can provide detailed characterization of wave propagation before deployment. We used the measured amplitude and phase, at 4 K, of the receiver near-field beam pattern to predict two key performance parameters: 1) the amount of scattered light that will spill past the telescope to 300 K and 2) the beam pattern expected from the receiver when fielded on the telescope. These cryogenic measurements informed the removal of a filter, which led to improved optical efficiency and reduced sidelobes at the exit of the receiver. Holography measurements of this system suggest that the spilled power past the telescope mirrors will be less than 1%, and the main beam with its near sidelobes are consistent with the nominal telescope design. This is the first time such parameters have been confirmed in the lab prior to deployment of a new receiver. This approach is broadly applicable to millimeter and submillimeter instruments.
Published: 2022
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3. The Simons Observatory: Gain, Bandpass and Polarization-angle Calibration Requirements for B-mode Searches

Author: Maximilian H Abitbol, David Alonso, Sara M Simon, Jack Lashner, Kevin T Crowley, Aamir M Ali, Susanna Azzoni, Carlo Baccigalupi, Darcy Barron, Michael L Brown, Erminia Calabrese, Julien Carron, Yuji Chinone, Jens Chluba, Gabriele Coppi, Kevin D Crowley, Mark Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Josquin Errard, Valentina Fanfani, Nicholas Galitzki, Martina Gerbino, J Colin Hill, Bradley R Johnson, Baptiste Jost, Brian Keating, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Akito Kusaka, Adrian T Lee, Thibaut Louis, Mathew S Madhavacheril, Heather McCarrick, Jeffrey McMahon, P Daniel Meerburg, Federico Nati, Haruki Nishino, Lyman A Page, Davide Poletti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Michael J Randall, Aditya Rotti, Jacob Spisak, Aritoki Suzuki, Grant P Teply, Clara Verges, Edward J Wollack, Zhilei Xu, and Mario Zannoni
Subjects: Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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4. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Weighing Distant Clusters with the Most Ancient Light

Author: Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Cristobal Sifon, Nicholas Battaglia, Simone Aiola, Stefania Amodeo, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Steve K. Choi, Edward V. Denison, Mark J Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, Shannon M. Duff, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jo Dunkley, Rolando Dunner, Simone Ferraro, Patricio A. Gallardo, Yilun Guan, Dongwon Han, J. Colin Hill, Gene C Hilton, Matt Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin M. Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Brian J. Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Jeff Van Lanen, Eunseong Lee, Thibaut Louis, Amanda MacInnis, Jeffrey McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Sigurd Naess, Toshiya Namikawa, Federico Nati, Laura Newburgh, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Frank J. Qu, Naomi C. Robertson, Maria Salatino, Emmanuel Schaan, Alessandro Schillaci, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Neelima Sehgal, Blake D. Sherwin, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Suzanne Staggs, Emilie R. Storer, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Alexander van Engelen, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Edward J Wollack, and Zhilei Xu
Subjects: Earth Resources And Remote Sensing, Space Sciences (General)
Abstract: We use gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to measure the mass of the most distant blindly selected sample of galaxy clusters on which a lensing measurement has been performed to date. In CMB data from the the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Planck satellite, we detect the stacked lensing effect from 677 near-infrared-selected galaxy clusters from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS), which have a mean redshift of (z)=1.08. There are currently no representative optical weak lensing measurements of clusters that match the distance and average mass of this sample. We detect the lensing signal with a significance of . We model the signal with a halo model framework to find the mean mass of the population from which these clusters are drawn. Assuming that the clusters follow Navarro–Frenk–White (NFW) density profiles, we infer a mean mass of (M(500c))=(1.7 ± 0.4) x 10^14M(ʘ). We consider systematic uncertainties from cluster redshift errors, centering errors, and the shape of the NFW profile. These are all smaller than 30% of our reported uncertainty. This work highlights the potential of CMB lensing to enable cosmological constraints from the abundance of distant clusters populating ever larger volumes of the observable universe, beyond the capabilities of optical weak lensing measurements.
Published: 2020
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5. The Cross Correlation of the ABS and ACT Maps

Author: Zack Li, Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola, David Alonso, John W Appel, J Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Steve K Choi, Kevin T Crowley, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Shannon M Duff, Joanna Dunkley, J W Fowler, Patricio Gallardo, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Akito Kusaka, Thibaut Louis, Mathew S Madhavacheril, Jeffrey McMahon, Federico Nati, Michael D Niemac, Lyman Page, Lucas Parker, Bruce Partridge, Maria Salatino, Jonathan L Sievers, Cristobal Sifon, Sara M Simon, Suzanne T Staggs, Emilie Storer, and Edward J Wollack
Subjects: Astrophysics
Abstract: One of the most important checks for systematic errors in CMB studies is the cross correlation of maps made by independent experiments. In this paper, we report on the cross correlation between maps from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) experiments in both temperature and polarization. These completely different measurements have a clear correlation with each other and with the Planck satellite in both the EE and TE spectra at l < 400 over the roughly 1100 deg(exp 2) common to all three. The TB, EB, and BB cross spectra are consistent with noise. Exploiting such cross-correlations will be important for future experiments operating in Chile that aim to probe the 30 < l < 8,000 range.
Published: 2020
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6. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Author: Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Colin Hill, Sigurd Naess, Graeme E. Addison, Simone Aiola, Taylor Baildon, Nicholas Battaglia, Rachel Bean, J. Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Victoria Calafut, Steve K. Choi, Omar Darwish, Rahul Datta, Mark J. Devlin, Joanna Dunkle, Rolando Dunner, Simone Ferraro, Patricio A. Gallardo, Vera Gluscevic, Mark Halpern, Dongwon Han, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Kevin M. Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Brian J. Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Martine Lokken, Thibaut Louis, Marius Lungu, Amanda MacInnis, Loic Maurin, Jeffrey J. McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Naomi Robertson, Neelima Sehgal, Emmanuel Schaan, Alessandro Schillaci, Blake D.Sherwin, Cristobal Sifon, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Emilie R. Storer, Alexander van Engelen, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Edward Wollack, and Zhilei Xu
Subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics
Abstract: 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 the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level component separation in CMB analyses has been performed exclusively using satellite data. In this paper, we implement a component separation method based on the internal linear combination (ILC) approach which we have designed to optimally account for the anisotropic noise (in the 2D Fourier domain) often found in ground-based CMB experiments. Using this method, we combine multi-frequency data from the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) to construct the first wide area (≈2100 sq. deg.), arcminute-resolution component-separated maps of the CMB temperature anisotropy and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect sourced by the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off hot, ionized gas. Our ILC pipeline allows for explicit deprojection of various contaminating signals, including a modified blackbody approximation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) spectral energy distribution. The cleaned CMB maps will be a useful resource for CMB lensing reconstruction, kinematic SZ cross-correlations, and primordial non-Gaussianity studies. The tSZ maps will be used to study the pressure pro�les of galaxies, groups, and clusters through cross-correlations with halo catalogs, with dust contamination controlled via CIB deprojection. The data products described in this paper are available on LAMBDA.
Published: 2020
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7. Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory

Author: Aamir M. Ali, Shunsuke Adachi, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton, Andrew Bazarko, Yuji Chinone, Gabriele Coppi, Lance Corbett, KevinD Crowley, Kevin T Crowley, Mark Devlin, Simon Dicker, Shannon Duff, Chris Ellis, Nicholas Galitzki, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Kathleen Harrington, Erin Healy, Charles A Hill, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Brian Keating, Kenji Kiuchi, Akito Kusaka, Adrian T Lee, Michael Ludlam, Aashrita Mangu, Frederick Matsuda, Heather McCarrick, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Haruki Nishino, John Orlowski-Scherer, MayuriSathyanarayana Rao, Christopher Raum, YukiSakurai, Maria Salatino, Trevor Sasse, Joseph Seibert, Carlos Sierra, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Jacob Spisak, Sara M Simon, Suzanne Staggs, Osamu Tajima, ·Grant Teply, Tran Tsan, Edward Wollack, Bejamin Westbrook, Zhilei Xu, Mario Zannoni, and Ningfeng Zhu
Subjects: Instrumentation And Photography
Abstract: 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 polarization in six frequency bands spanning 27 to 285 GHz. SO will consist of one 6-meter Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) fielding∼30,000 detectors and an array of three 0.42-meter Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) fielding an additional 30,000 detectors. This synergy will allow for the extremely sensitive characterization of the CMB over an-gular scales ranging from an arcmin to tens of degrees, enabling a wide range of scientific output. Here we focus on the SATs targeting degree angular scales with successive dichroic instruments observing at Mid-Frequency (MF: 93/145 GHz), Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF:225/285 GHz), and Low-Frequency (LF: 27/39 GHz). The three SATs will be able to map∼10% of the sky to a noise level of∼2 μK-arcmin when combining 93 and 145 GHz. The multiple frequency bands will allow the CMB to be separated from galactic foregrounds (primarily synchrotron and dust), with the primary science goal of characterizing the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, at a target level ofσ(r)≈0.003.
Published: 2020
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8. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence

Author: Toshiya Namikawa, Yilun Guan, Omar Darwish, Blake D. Sherwin, Simone Aiola, Nicholas Battaglia, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Grace E. Chesmore, Steve K.Choi, Mark J. Devlin, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dunner, Anna E. Fox, Patricio A. Gallardo, Vera Gluscevic, Dongwon Han, Matthew Hasselfield, Gene C. Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Brian J. Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Thibaut Louis, Marius Lungu, Amanda MacInnis, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Loıc Maurin, Jeffrey McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Laura B.Newburgh, John P. Nibarger, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Frank J. Qu, Naomi Robertson, Alessandro Schillaci, Neelima Sehgal, Cristobal Sifon, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T.Staggs, Emilie R. Storer, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff van Lanen, and Edward J. Wollack
Subjects: Astrophysics, Space Radiation
Abstract: 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 square degrees of sky. The birefringence power spectrum, measured using a curved-sky quadratic estimator, is consistent with zero. Our results provide the tightest current constraint on birefringence over a range of angular scales between 5 arc minutes and 9°. We improve previous upper limits on the amplitude of a scale-invariant birefringence power spectrum by a factor of between 2 and 3. Assuming a nearly massless axion field during inflation, our result is equivalent to a 2σ upper limit on the Chern-Simons coupling constant between axions and photons of g(αγ)< 4.0 × 10(exp -2)/H(I), where H(I) is the inflationary Hubble scale.
Published: 2020
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9. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on cosmic birefringence

Author: Toshiya Namikawa, Yilun Guan, Omar Darwish, Blake D. Sherwin, Simone Aiola, Nicholas Battaglia, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Grace E. Chesmore, Steve K. Choi, Mark J. Devlin, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dünner, Anna E. Fox, Patricio A. Gallardo, Vera Gluscevic, Dongwon Han, Matthew Hasselfield, Gene C. Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renée Hložek, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Brian J. Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Thibaut Louis, Marius Lungu, Amanda MacInnis, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Loïc Maurin, Jeffrey McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Laura B. Newburgh, John P. Nibarger, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Frank J. Qu, Naomi Robertson, Alessandro Schillaci, Neelima Sehgal, Cristóbal Sifón, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Emilie R. Storer, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff van Lanen, and Edward J. Wollack
Published: 2020
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10. Assembly and Integration Process of the High-Density Detector Array Readout Modules for the Simons Observatory

Author: Yaqlong Li, Kam Arnold, Zachary Atkins, Sarah Marie Bruno, Nicholas F. Cothard, Bradley Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon M. Duff, Patricio A. Gallardo, Erin Healy, Shuay‑Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Brian Keating, Adrian T Lee, Aashrita Mangu, Heather McCarrick, Michael D. Niemack, Laura Newburgh, Christopher Raum, Maria Salatino, Trevor Sasse, Maximiliano Silva‑Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Suzanne Staggs, Aritoki Suzuki, Joel Ullom, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Michael R. Vissers, Yuhan Wang, Benjamin Westbrook, Edward J Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Kaiwen Zheng, and Ningfeng Zhu
Subjects: Astronomy, Instrumentation And Photography
Abstract: The Simons Observatory will measure the cosmic microwave background tempera-ture and polarization using a suite of new telescopes in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The Simons Observatory will use dichroic transition edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays spanning six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz. The Simons Observa-tory will pioneer the use of a densely packed multiplexing architecture based on the microwave SQUID multiplexer ( 𝜇mux), housing ∼2000 microwave resonators, each coupled to a TES. The Simons Observatory aims to multiplex each array of ∼2000 detectors with a single pair of coaxial cables and requires a multiplexing factor of ∼1000 . The Simons Observatory cryogenic readout system is called the universal microwave multiplexing module (UMM). The UMM couples to both horn and lenslet-coupled detector arrays and is integrated into the universal focal-plane module (UFM) after being independently characterized. We present processes we have developed for highly repeatable and automated integration methods of UMMs, which will be needed for the production of the 49 UFMs required for the first stage of the Simons Observatory.
Published: 2020
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11. Machine Learning, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, and Optimal Algorithms to Characterize the AdvACT Kilopixel Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays

Author: Maria Salatino, Jason Austermann, James Beall, Steve Choi, Kevin T. Crowley, Shannon Duff, Shawn W. Henderson, Gene Hilton, S.-P. P. Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Yaqiong Li, Michael D. Niemack, Sara M. Simon, Suzanne T. Staggs, and Edward J Wollack
Subjects: Mathematical And Computer Sciences (General)
Abstract: Next-generation focal planes comprising dozens of kilopixel transition-edge sensor (TES) arrays require new methods to rapidly screen candidate arrays, evaluate array non-idealities in the field, identify outlier devices for removal, and optimize the array performance in the field. We demonstrate robust methods to estimate TES parameters (critical temperatures and thermal conductivity parameters) and their uncertainties using a custom Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. We also constrain systematic effects in estimating the TES parameters from non-isothermal current-voltage curves (IVs) at approximately a ~3% level. Additionally, for the first time, we have applied Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to tune detector arrays and optimize their performance.
Published: 2019
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12. The Simons Observatory: science goals andforecasts

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 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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13. The TolTEC camera: optical alignment and characterization

Author: Emily L. Lunde, Marc Berthoud, Nat S. DeNigris, Simon M. Doyle, Daniel Ferrusca, Joseph E. Golec, Stephen W. Kuczarski, Dennis Lee, Zhiyuan Ma, Philip D. Mauskopf, Michael McCrackan, Jeffrey J. McMahon, Giles A. Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, Sara M. Simon, Kamal Souccar, Carole E. Tucker, Matthew Underhill, Eric Van Camp, and Grant W. Wilson
Published: 2022

14. The Simons Observatory: Characterizing the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver with Radio Holography

Author: Grace E. Chesmore, Kathleen Harrington, Carlos E. Sierra, Patricio A. Gallardo, Shreya Sutariya, Tommy Alford, Alexandre E. Adler, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi, Nadia Dachlythra, Joseph Golec, Jon Gudmundsson, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Bradley R. Johnson, Anna M. Kofman, Jeffrey Iuliano, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Roberto Puddu, Max Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Julia Robe, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Chesmore, G, Harrington, K, Sierra, C, Gallardo, P, Sutariya, S, Alford, T, Adler, A, Bhandarkar, T, Coppi, G, Dachlythra, N, Golec, J, Gudmundsson, J, Haridas, S, Johnson, B, Kofman, A, Iuliano, J, Mcmahon, J, Niemack, M, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Perez Sarmiento, K, Puddu, R, Silva-Feaver, M, Simon, S, Robe, J, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, optics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We present near-field radio holography measurements of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver optics. These measurements demonstrate that radio holography of complex millimeter-wave optical systems comprising cryogenic lenses, filters, and feed horns can provide detailed characterization of wave propagation before deployment. We used the measured amplitude and phase, at 4 K, of the receiver near-field beam pattern to predict two key performance parameters: 1) the amount of scattered light that will spill past the telescope to 300 K and 2) the beam pattern expected from the receiver when fielded on the telescope. These cryogenic measurements informed the removal of a filter, which led to improved optical efficiency and reduced sidelobes at the exit of the receiver. Holography measurements of this system suggest that the spilled power past the telescope mirrors will be less than 1%, and the main beam with its near sidelobes are consistent with the nominal telescope design. This is the first time such parameters have been confirmed in the lab prior to deployment of a new receiver. This approach is broadly applicable to millimeter and submillimeter instruments.
Published: 2022

15. Simons Observatory: characterizing the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver with radio holography

Author: Chesmore, G, Harrington, K, Sierra, C, Gallardo, P, Sutariya, S, Alford, T, Adler, A, Bhandarkar, T, Coppi, G, Dachlythra, N, Golec, J, Gudmundsson, J, Haridas, S, Johnson, B, Kofman, A, Iuliano, J, Mcmahon, J, Niemack, M, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Perez Sarmiento, K, Puddu, R, Silva-Feaver, M, Simon, S, Robe, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Grace E. Chesmore, Kathleen Harrington, Carlos E. Sierra, Patricio A. Gallardo, Shreya Sutariya, Tommy Alford, Alexandre E. Adler, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi, Nadia Dachlythra, Joseph Golec, Jon Gudmundsson, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Bradley R. Johnson, Anna M. Kofman, Jeffrey Iuliano, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Roberto Puddu, Max Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Julia Robe, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Chesmore, G, Harrington, K, Sierra, C, Gallardo, P, Sutariya, S, Alford, T, Adler, A, Bhandarkar, T, Coppi, G, Dachlythra, N, Golec, J, Gudmundsson, J, Haridas, S, Johnson, B, Kofman, A, Iuliano, J, Mcmahon, J, Niemack, M, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Perez Sarmiento, K, Puddu, R, Silva-Feaver, M, Simon, S, Robe, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Grace E. Chesmore, Kathleen Harrington, Carlos E. Sierra, Patricio A. Gallardo, Shreya Sutariya, Tommy Alford, Alexandre E. Adler, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi, Nadia Dachlythra, Joseph Golec, Jon Gudmundsson, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Bradley R. Johnson, Anna M. Kofman, Jeffrey Iuliano, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Roberto Puddu, Max Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Julia Robe, Edward J. Wollack, and Zhilei Xu
Abstract: We present near-field radio holography measurements of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver optics. These measurements demonstrate that radio holography of complex millimeter-wave optical systems comprising cryogenic lenses, filters, and feed horns can provide detailed characterization of wave propagation before deployment. We used the measured amplitude and phase, at 4 K, of the receiver near-field beam pattern to predict two key performance parameters: 1) the amount of scattered light that will spill past the telescope to 300 K and 2) the beam pattern expected from the receiver when fielded on the telescope. These cryogenic measurements informed the removal of a filter, which led to improved optical efficiency and reduced sidelobes at the exit of the receiver. Holography measurements of this system suggest that the spilled power past the telescope mirrors will be less than 1%, and the main beam with its near sidelobes are consistent with the nominal telescope design. This is the first time such parameters have been confirmed in the lab prior to deployment of a new receiver. This approach is broadly applicable to millimeter and submillimeter instruments.
Published: 2022

16. Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout: Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design

Author: Suzanne T. Staggs, Maria Salatino, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Justin Mathewson, Trevor Sasse, Zhilei Xu, Jenna Moore, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Aashrita Mangu, Nicholas Galitzki, Ningfeng Zhu, Shawn W. Henderson, Kam Arnold, Akito Kusaka, Bradley Dober, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Peter Ashton, Shannon M. Duff, Heather McCarrick, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Michael D. Niemack, Jonathan Hoh, Christopher Raum, Aamir Ali, Benjamin Westbrook, Joel N. Ullom, Grant Teply, Erin Healy, Jason R. Stevens, Adrian T. Lee, Cody J. Duell, Sara M. Simon, A. M. Kofman, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Joseph Seibert, and Robert Thornton
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Coaxial cable, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, law, biology.animal, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Squid, biology, business.industry, RF power amplifier, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Optoelectronics, Transition edge sensor, Coaxial, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Microwave
Abstract: 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 optical and infrared surveys (e.g., DESI, LSST, HSC). To enable the readout of \bigO(10,000) detectors in each of the four telescopes of SO, we will employ the microwave SQUID multiplexing technology. With a targeted multiplexing factor of \bigO{(1,000)}, microwave SQUID multiplexing has never been deployed on the scale needed for SO. Here we present the design of the cryogenic coaxial cable and RF component chain that connects room temperature readout electronics to superconducting resonators that are coupled to Transition Edge Sensor bolometers operating at sub-Kelvin temperatures. We describe design considerations including cryogenic RF component selection, system linearity, noise, and thermal power dissipation., 10 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2020

17. Assembly and Integration Process of the High-Density Detector Array Readout Modules for the Simons Observatory

Author: Zhilei Xu, Aritoki Suzuki, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Kaiwen Zheng, Maria Salatino, Laura Newburgh, Kam Arnold, Michael D. Niemack, Trevor Sasse, Shannon M. Duff, Sara M. Simon, Ningfeng Zhu, Christopher Raum, Nicholas F. Cothard, Heather McCarrick, Brian Keating, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Erin Healy, Suzanne T. Staggs, B. Dober, Sarah Marie Bruno, Yuhan Wang, Aashrita Mangu, Zachary Atkins, Adrian T. Lee, Michael R. Vissers, Johannes Hubmayr, Yaqiong Li, Cody J. Duell, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Patricio A. Gallardo, Benjamin Westbrook, Joel N. Ullom, and Edward J. Wollack
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Dichroic glass, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexer, Multiplexing, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Transition edge sensor, 010306 general physics, business, Microwave
Abstract: The Simons Observatory will measure the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization using a suite of new telescopes in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The Simons Observatory will use dichroic transition edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays spanning six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz. The Simons Observatory will pioneer the use of a densely packed multiplexing architecture based on the microwave SQUID multiplexer ($$\mu $$mux), housing $$\sim \! 2000$$ microwave resonators, each coupled to a TES. The Simons Observatory aims to multiplex each array of $$\sim \! 2000$$ detectors with a single pair of coaxial cables and requires a multiplexing factor of $$\sim \! 1000$$. The Simons Observatory cryogenic readout system is called the universal microwave multiplexing module (UMM). The UMM couples to both horn and lenslet-coupled detector arrays and is integrated into the universal focal-plane module (UFM) after being independently characterized. We present processes we have developed for highly repeatable and automated integration methods of UMMs, which will be needed for the production of the 49 UFMs required for the first stage of the Simons Observatory.
Published: 2020

18. Machine Learning, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, and Optimal Algorithms to Characterize the AdvACT Kilopixel Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays

Author: Shannon M. Duff, Edward J. Wollack, Shawn W. Henderson, Sara M. Simon, Steve K. Choi, Suzanne T. Staggs, Michael D. Niemack, Maria Salatino, Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, S. P. Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, and Gene C. Hilton
Subjects: Field (physics), business.industry, Computer science, Detector, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Condensed Matter Physics, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, symbols.namesake, Thermal conductivity, 0103 physical sciences, Array performance, Outlier, symbols, Artificial intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Transition edge sensor, 010306 general physics, business, computer, Algorithm
Abstract: Next-generation focal planes comprising dozens of kilopixel transition-edge sensor (TES) arrays require new methods to rapidly screen candidate arrays, evaluate array non-idealities in the field, identify outlier devices for removal, and optimize the array performance in the field. We demonstrate robust methods to estimate TES parameters (critical temperatures and thermal conductivity parameters) and their uncertainties using a custom Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. We also constrain systematic effects in estimating the TES parameters from non-isothermal current-voltage curves (IVs) at approximately a ∼3% level. Additionally, for the first time, we have applied Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to tune detector arrays and optimize their performance.
Published: 2019

19. Demonstration of 220/280 GHz Multichroic Feedhorn-Coupled TES Polarimeter

Author: Shannon M. Duff, Jason E. Austermann, Dan Becker, Johannes Hubmayr, B. Dober, Samantha Walker, Jeff McMahon, Sara M. Simon, Michael R. Vissers, Gene C. Hilton, J. A. Beall, Carlos Sierra, J. Van Lanen, and Joel N. Ullom
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Article, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Diplexer, Passband, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, business.industry, Linear polarization, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Orthomode transducer, 13. Climate action, Extremely high frequency, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business
Abstract: We describe the design and measurement of feedhorn-coupled, transition-edge sensor (TES) polarimeters with two passbands centered at 220 GHz and 280 GHz, intended for observations of the cosmic microwave background. Each pixel couples polarized light in two linear polarizations by use of a planar orthomode transducer and senses power via four TES bolometers, one for each band in each linear polarization. Previous designs of this detector architecture incorporated passbands from 27 GHz to 220 GHz; we now demonstrate this technology at frequencies up to 315 GHz. Observational passbands are defined with an on-chip diplexer, and Fourier-transform-spectrometer measurements are in excellent agreement with simulations. We find coupling from feedhorn to TES bolometer using a cryogenic, temperature-controlled thermal source. We determine the optical efficiency of our device is $\eta$ = 77%$\pm$6% (75%$\pm$5%) for 220 (280) GHz, relative to the designed passband shapes. Lastly, we compare two power-termination schemes commonly used in wide-bandwidth millimeter-wave polarimeters and find equal performance in terms of optical efficiency and passband shape., Comment: Proceedings for the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD18), submitted to the Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Published: 2021

20. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access

Author: Joseph E. Golec, Shannon M. Duff, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Thibaut Louis, Lyman A. Page, Erminia Calabrese, E. V. Denison, Yilun Guan, Edward J. Wollack, Kavilan Moodley, Jason E. Austermann, Daniel T. Becker, John P. Hughes, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Simone Aiola, Dongwon Han, C. Sifon, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Toshiya Namikawa, Kyra Fichman, Zhilei Xu, Blake D. Sherwin, Jo Dunkley, Maria Salatino, Brian J. Koopman, Emmanuel Schaan, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeff McMahon, Matt Hilton, Simone Ferraro, Matthew Hasselfield, Laura Newburgh, Mark J. Devlin, Zachary Atkins, Patricio A. Gallardo, James A. Beall, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Kevin T. Crowley, J. Colin Hill, Steve K. Choi, Suzanne T. Staggs, Amanda MacInnis, Alessandro Schillaci, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Omar Darwish, Grace E. Chesmore, Neelima Sehgal, S. Amodeo, Gene C. Hilton, Emilie R. Storer, Sigurd Naess, Jeff Van Lanen, J. Richard Bond, Alexander van Engelen, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Renée Hložek, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mallaby-Kay, M, Atkins, Z, Aiola, S, Amodeo, S, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Becker, D, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Chesmore, G, Choi, S, Crowley, K, Darwish, O, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Ferraro, S, Fichman, K, Gallardo, P, Golec, J, Guan, Y, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Louis, T, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Page, L, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Ullom, J, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Vale, L, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Data products, Art history, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Public access, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Order (virtue), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, CMB, Cosmology, Space and Planetary Science, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps that cover nearly half the sky at arcminute resolution in three frequency bands; lensing maps and component-separated maps covering ~ 2,100 deg^2 of sky; derived power spectra and cosmological likelihoods; a catalog of over 4,000 galaxy clusters; and supporting ancillary products including beam functions and masks. The data and products are described in a suite of ACT papers; here we provide a summary. In order to facilitate ease of access to these data we present a set of Jupyter IPython notebooks developed to introduce users to DR4, DR5, and the tools needed to analyze these data. The data products (excluding simulations) and the set of notebooks are publicly available on the NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA); simulation products are available on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)., Accepted to ApJS. 21 pages, 8 figures. Data and notebooks available on LAMBDA https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/
Published: 2021

21. The Simons Observatory: modeling optical systematics in the Large Aperture Telescope

Author: Rolando Dünner, John Orlowski-Scherer, Adrian T. Lee, Kavilan Moodley, Aamir Ali, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Giuseppe Puglisi, Patricio A. Gallardo, Sara M. Simon, Carlos Sierra, Michael D. Niemack, Grace E. Chesmore, Giulio Fabbian, Alexandre E. Adler, Nicholas F. Cothard, Lyman A. Page, Gabriele Coppi, Ningfeng Zhu, Nicholas Galitzki, Edward J. Wollack, Federico Nati, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Nadia Dachlythra, Bruce Partridge, Michele Limon, Zhilei Xu, Christian L. Reichardt, A. M. Kofman, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Simon Dicker, Peter Charles Hargrave, Joseph E. Golec, Andrew Bazarko, Roberto Puddu, Frederick Matsuda, Carole Tucker, Mark J. Devlin, Grant Teply, Gudmundsson, J, Gallardo, P, Puddu, R, Dicker, S, Adler, A, Ali, A, Bazarko, A, Chesmore, G, Coppi, G, Cothard, N, Dachlythra, N, Devlin, M, Dünner, R, Fabbian, G, Galitzki, N, Golec, J, Patty Ho, S, Hargrave, P, Kofman, A, Lee, A, Limon, M, Matsuda, F, Mauskopf, P, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Page, L, Partridge, B, Puglisi, G, Reichardt, C, Sierra, C, Simon, S, Teply, G, Tucker, C, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, and Zhu, N
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, Light beam, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, Geometrical optics, business.industry, Stray light, Settore FIS/05, Optical Design, Telescope, Simons Observatory, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physical optics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Ray tracing (graphics), Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business
Abstract: We present geometrical and physical optics simulation results for the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope. This work was developed as part of the general design process for the telescope; allowing us to evaluate the impact of various design choices on performance metrics and potential systematic effects. The primary goal of the simulations was to evaluate the final design of the reflectors and the cold optics which are now being built. We describe non-sequential ray tracing used to inform the design of the cold optics, including absorbers internal to each optics tube. We discuss ray tracing simulations of the telescope structure that allow us to determine geometries that minimize detector loading and mitigate spurious near-field effects that have not been resolved by the internal baffling. We also describe physical optics simulations, performed over a range of frequencies and field locations, that produce estimates of monochromatic far field beam patterns which in turn are used to gauge general optical performance. Finally, we describe simulations that shed light on beam sidelobes from panel gap diffraction., 15 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2021

22. In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Sara M. Simon, Jason E. Austermann, Shannon M. Duff, Joel N. Ullom, Marius Lungu, Yaqiong Li, Edward J. Wollack, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Suzanne T. Staggs, Maria Salatino, Lyman A. Page, Yuhan Wang, Johannes Hubmayr, Zhilei Xu, Gene C. Hilton, Joseph E. Golec, Matthew Hasselfield, Steve K. Choi, Sarah Marie Bruno, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Jason R. Stevens, Michael D. Niemack, and Nicholas F. Cothard
Subjects: Cosmic microwave background, Synchrotron radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies in multiple frequencies. The low frequency (LF) array was deployed early 2020. It consists of 292 TES bolometers observing in two bands centered at 27 GHz and 39 GHz. At these frequencies, it is sensitive to synchrotron radiation from our galaxy as well as to the CMB, and complements the AdvACT arrays operating at 90, 150 and 230 GHz. We present the initial LF array on-site characterization, including the time constant, optical efficiency and array sensitivity.
Published: 2021
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23. CCAT-prime: Designs and status of the first light 280 GHz MKID array and mod-cam receiver

Author: Doug Johnstone, Sara M. Simon, Eve M. Vavagiakis, B. Dober, Thomas Nikola, Jason E. Austermann, Kayla Rossi, Gordon J. Stacey, Yaqiong Li, Bugao Zou, Patricio A. Gallardo, Steve K. Choi, Jiansong Gao, Terry Herter, Michael D. Niemack, Scott Chapman, Adrian Sinclair, Zachary B. Huber, Nicholas F. Cothard, Jordan Wheeler, Michael R. Vissers, Johannes Hubmayr, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Cody J. Duell, Christopher Groppi, and Jeff McMahon
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Aperture, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, First light, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, law, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, NIST, Millimeter, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Microwave, media_common
Abstract: The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's high Atacama desert in late 2022. FYST is a six-meter aperture telescope being built on Cerro Chajnantor at an elevation of 5600 meters to observe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.1 Mod-Cam will pave the way for Prime-Cam, the primary first generation instrument, which will house up to seven instrument modules to simultaneously observe the sky and study a diverse set of science goals from monitoring protostars to probing distant galaxy clusters and characterizing the cosmic microwave background (CMB). At least one feedhorn-coupled array of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) centered on 280 GHz will be included in Mod-Cam at first light, with additional instrument modules to be deployed along with Prime-Cam in stages. The first 280 GHz detector array was fabricated by the Quantum Sensors Group at NIST in Boulder, CO and includes 3,456 polarization-sensitive MKIDs. Current mechanical designs allow for up to three hexagonal arrays to be placed in each single instrument module. We present details on this first light detector array, including mechanical designs and cold readout plans, as well as introducing Mod-Cam as both a testbed and predecessor to Prime-Cam., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Paper Number: 11453-58
Published: 2020

24. TolTEC focal plane arrays: design, characterization, and performance of kilopixel MKID focal planes

Author: Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Sophia Abi-Saad, Eric Van Camp, Marc Berthoud, Dennis Lee, Sara M. Simon, Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Joel N. Ullom, Jeff McMahon, Johannes Hubmayr, Giles Novak, Gene C. Hilton, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Bradley Dober, Zhiyuan Ma, Jeff Van Lanen, Yvonne Ban, Kamal Souccar, Michael McCrackan, Reid Contente, Natalie DeNigris, Christopher M. McKenney, Emily Lunde, Grant W. Wilson, and Stephen Kuczarski
Subjects: Physics, Resonator, Cardinal point, Optics, business.industry, Large Millimeter Telescope, Extremely high frequency, Detector, Polarimetry, Polarimeter, business, Microwave
Abstract: TolTEC is a 3-band millimeter-wave imaging polarimeter scheduled for deployment to the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in January 2020. TolTEC consists of three, kilopixel-scale, monolithic arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), together comprising over 7,000 polarization sensitive detectors. Here we describe many of the unique aspects of the TolTEC all-silicon focal plane design. We then present both laboratory and fully integrated in-receiver measurements in the lab with which we characterize the optical, resonator, and noise properties of the arrays.
Published: 2020

25. The TolTEC camera: an overview of the instrument and in-lab testing results

Author: James A. Beall, Marc Berthoud, Gene C. Hilton, Sean Bryan, David Sánchez-Arguelles, L. M. Fissel, Emily Lunde, Grant W. Wilson, Michael McCrackan, J. N. Ullom, Daniel Ferrusca, Adrian Sinclair, John Bussan, Zhiyuan Ma, Peter A. R. Ade, Mohsen Hosseini, Edgar Castillo, David H. Hughes, Philip Mauskopf, Joseph C. Bardin, Jason E. Austermann, Robert Golina, Min S. Yun, Jeff Van Lanen, Ivan Rodriguez, Yvonne Ban, Christopher M. McKenney, Alexandra Pope, Johannes Hubmayr, Itziar Aretxaga, S. Gordon, Miguel Chavez, Eric Van Camp, Reid Contente, Miranda Eiben, Joseph E. Golec, Sophia Abi-Saad, M. Velázquez, Amy Ralston, F. Peter Schloerb, Carole Tucker, Kamal Souccar, Sara M. Simon, Jiansong Gao, Stephen Kuczarski, Bradley Dober, G. Pisano, Giles Novak, Ana Torres Campos, Hamdi Mani, Jeff McMahon, Michael R. Vissers, Robert A. Gutermuth, Arturo Gomez, Dennis Lee, Eric Weeks, and Natalie DeNigris
Subjects: instrumentation, Physics, business.industry, Kinetic inductance detectors, Large Millimeter Telescope, Polarimeter, Polarimetry, millimetre wave astronomy, instrumentation, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, millimetre wave astronomy, law, Polarimetry, business
Abstract: TolTEC is a three-band imaging polarimeter for the Large Millimeter Telescope. Simultaneously observing with passbands at 1.1mm, 1.4mm and 2.0mm, TolTEC has diffraction-limited beams with FWHM of 5, 7, and 11 arcsec, respectively. Over the coming decade, TolTEC will perform a combination of PI-led and Open-access Legacy Survey projects. Herein we provide an overview of the instrument and give the first quantitative measures of its performance in the lab prior to shipping to the telescope in 2021.
Published: 2020

26. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters

Author: Simone Aiola, Suzanne T. Staggs, C. Sifon, J. Richard Bond, Martine Lokken, Bruce Partridge, Brittany Fuzia, Giampaolo Pisano, Matthew Hasselfield, Vincent Lakey, Shannon M. Duff, H. M. Cho, Naomi Robertson, Brandon S. Hensley, Laura Newburgh, Alexander van Engelen, Jesus Rivera, Kirsten Hall, Matt Hilton, Susan E. Clark, Kavilan Moodley, Rachel Bean, Kent D. Irwin, David Alonso, Andrina Nicola, Edward J. Wollack, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Dhaneshwar D. Sunder, Brian J. Koopman, David N. Spergel, Rolando Dünner, Jakob M. Helton, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Sigurd Naess, Leopoldo Infante, Adam D. Hincks, Emily Grace, Renée Hložek, Ningfeng Zhu, Felipe Rojas, Jeff McMahon, Grace E. Chesmore, Jacob Klein, Max Fankhanel, Frank J. Qu, Heather Prince, S. Henderson, Yaqiong Li, Timothy D. Morton, Dale Li, Jason E. Austermann, E. V. Denison, Jason R. Stevens, Robert Thornton, Kenda Knowles, Christine G. Pappas, Amanda MacInnis, Yuhan Wang, Joseph E. Golec, Precious Sikhosana, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Neelima Sehgal, John P. Hughes, Felipe Maldonado, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Peter Charles Hargrave, Sarah Marie Bruno, Michael R. Nolta, Zack Li, Dongwon Han, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Jon Sievers, Kasey Wagoner, Blake D. Sherwin, J. Colin Hill, Lyman A. Page, Thibaut Louis, John Orlowski-Sherer, Fernando Zago, Arthur Kosowsky, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Carlos Sierra, Felipe Menanteau, Loïc Maurin, B. Thorne, Vera Gluscevic, Eric R. Switzer, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Marius Lungu, Jo Dunkley, Emilie R. Storer, Felipe Carrero, Gene C. Hilton, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Steve K. Choi, Roberto Puddu, Phumlani Phakathi, Jeff Van Lanen, Jonathan T. Ward, Omar Darwish, Yilun Guan, Maria Salatino, Daniel T. Becker, Anna E. Fox, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Federico Nati, Carole Tucker, Alessandro Schillaci, Graeme E. Addison, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Elio Angile, S. Amodeo, Erminia Calabrese, Leila R. Vale, Megan Gralla, Mandana Amiri, Nick Battaglia, Rahul Datta, Peter A. R. Ade, Devin Crichton, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Victoria Calafut, Jesse Treu, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Cody J. Duell, Luis E. Campusano, Danica Marsden, Rebecca Jackson, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Hy Trac, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Taylor Baildon, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ACT, Aiola, S, Calabrese, E, Maurin, L, Naess, S, Schmitt, B, Abitbol, M, Addison, G, Ade, P, Alonso, D, Amiri, M, Amodeo, S, Angile, E, Austermann, J, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Bean, R, Becker, D, Richard Bond, J, Bruno, S, Calafut, V, Campusano, L, Carrero, F, Chesmore, G, Cho, H, Choi, S, Clark, S, Cothard, N, Crichton, D, Crowley, K, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Essinger-Hileman, T, Fankhanel, M, Ferraro, S, Fox, A, Fuzia, B, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Golec, J, Grace, E, Gralla, M, Guan, Y, Hall, K, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hargrave, P, Hasselfield, M, Helton, J, Henderson, S, Hensley, B, Colin Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Infante, L, Irwin, K, Jackson, R, Klein, J, Knowles, K, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lakey, V, Li, D, Li, Y, Li, Z, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Maldonado, F, Mallaby-Kay, M, Marsden, D, Mcmahon, J, Menanteau, F, Moodley, K, Morton, T, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Nicola, A, Niemack, M, Nolta, M, Orlowski-Sherer, J, Page, L, Pappas, C, Partridge, B, Phakathi, P, Pisano, G, Prince, H, Puddu, R, Qu, F, Rivera, J, Robertson, N, Rojas, F, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sierra, C, Sievers, J, Sifon, C, Sikhosana, P, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Storer, E, Sunder, D, Switzer, E, Thorne, B, Thornton, R, Trac, H, Treu, J, Tucker, C, Vale, L, van Engelen, A, van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, Wagoner, K, Wang, Y, Ward, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zago, F, and Zhu, N
Subjects: CMBR polarisation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, CMBR experiments, Planck, Physics, Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, CMB cold spot, Baryon, Cosmological parameters from CMBR, 13. Climate action, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013-2016 at 98 and 150 GHz. The maps cover more than 17,000 deg$^2$, the deepest 600 deg$^2$ with noise levels below 10 $\mu$K-arcmin. We use the power spectrum derived from almost 6,000 deg$^2$ of these maps to constrain cosmology. The ACT data enable a measurement of the angular scale of features in both the divergence-like polarization and the temperature anisotropy, tracing both the velocity and density at last-scattering. From these one can derive the distance to the last-scattering surface and thus infer the local expansion rate, $H_0$. By combining ACT data with large-scale information from WMAP we measure $H_0 = 67.6 \pm 1.1$ km/s/Mpc, at 68% confidence, in excellent agreement with the independently-measured Planck satellite estimate (from ACT alone we find $H_0 = 67.9 \pm 1.5$ km/s/Mpc). The $\Lambda$CDM model provides a good fit to the ACT data, and we find no evidence for deviations: both the spatial curvature, and the departure from the standard lensing signal in the spectrum, are zero to within 1$\sigma$; the number of relativistic species, the primordial Helium fraction, and the running of the spectral index are consistent with $\Lambda$CDM predictions to within $1.5 - 2.2\sigma$. We compare ACT, WMAP, and Planck at the parameter level and find good consistency; we investigate how the constraints on the correlated spectral index and baryon density parameters readjust when adding CMB large-scale information that ACT does not measure. The DR4 products presented here will be publicly released on the NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis., Comment: 33 pages, 24 figures, products available on the NASA LAMBDA website, version accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2020

27. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect

Author: Simone Aiola, Michael D. Niemack, Federico Nati, C. Sifon, Brian J. Koopman, Kavilan Moodley, Victoria Calafut, Graeme E. Addison, Jeff McMahon, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Arthur Kosowsky, Nicholas Battaglia, Erminia Calabrese, Alexander van Engelen, Edward J. Wollack, David N. Spergel, Marius Lungu, Joanna Dunkley, J. Richard Bond, Renée Hložek, Alessandro Schillaci, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Emmanuel Schaan, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Vera Gluscevic, Mark J. Devlin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Patricio A. Gallardo, Thibaut Louis, Zhilei Xu, Taylor Baildon, Neelima Sehgal, Steve K. Choi, Bruce Partridge, Amanda MacInnis, Lyman A. Page, Loïc Maurin, J. Colin Hill, Naomi Robertson, Blake D. Sherwin, Rachel Bean, Emilie R. Storer, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, Rahul Datta, Dongwon Han, Martine Lokken, John P. Hughes, Omar Darwish, Rolando Dünner, Sara M. Simon, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Madhavacheril, M, Hill, J, Naess, S, Addison, G, Aiola, S, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Robertson, N, Sehgal, N, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Black-body radiation, Planck, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Galaxy, Cosmology, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, symbols, Spectral energy distribution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: 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 the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level component separation in CMB analyses has been performed exclusively using satellite data. In this paper, we implement a component separation method based on the internal linear combination (ILC) approach which we have designed to optimally account for the anisotropic noise (in the 2D Fourier domain) often found in ground-based CMB experiments. Using this method, we combine multi-frequency data from the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) to construct the first wide-area, arcminute-resolution component-separated maps (covering approximately 2100 sq. deg.) of the CMB temperature anisotropy and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect sourced by the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off hot, ionized gas. Our ILC pipeline allows for explicit deprojection of various contaminating signals, including a modified blackbody approximation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) spectral energy distribution. The cleaned CMB maps will be a useful resource for CMB lensing reconstruction, kinematic SZ cross-correlations, and primordial non-Gaussianity studies. The tSZ maps will be used to study the pressure profiles of galaxies, groups, and clusters through cross-correlations with halo catalogs, with dust contamination controlled via CIB deprojection. The data products described in this paper are available on LAMBDA., Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures, matches version accepted by PRD. Data products are available on LAMBDA at https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/act_dr4_derived_maps_get.cfm
Published: 2020

28. The cross correlation of the ABS and ACT maps

Author: Johannes Hubmayr, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Shannon M. Duff, Sigurd Naess, Emilie Storer, Lucas Parker, Edward J. Wollack, Jonathan Sievers, Suzanne T. Staggs, Akito Kusaka, Patricio A. Gallardo, Thibaut Louis, Lyman A. Page, Sara M. Simon, Maria Salatino, Simone Aiola, Joseph W. Fowler, Joanna Dunkley, David Alonso, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, John W. Appel, Jeff McMahon, Kevin T. Crowley, Bruce Partridge, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Michael D. Niemack, Cristóbal Sifón, J. Richard Bond, Zack Li, Erminia Calabrese, Steve K. Choi, Federico Nati, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Li, Z, Naess, S, Aiola, S, Alonso, D, Appel, J, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Crowley, K, Essinger-Hileman, T, Duff, S, Dunkley, J, Fowler, J, Gallardo, P, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Kusaka, A, Louis, T, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Parker, L, Partridge, B, Salatino, M, Sievers, J, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Wollack, E, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Planck, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, CMBR polarization, Physics, Cross-correlation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Noise (radio), CMBR detector, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: One of the most important checks for systematic errors in CMB studies is the cross correlation of maps made by independent experiments. In this paper we report on the cross correlation between maps from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) experiments in both temperature and polarization. These completely different measurements have a clear correlation with each other and with the Planck satellite in both the EE and TE spectra at $\ell, Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. For an interactive demonstration of the methods, see https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CnMGLn-J3pySv8A9ffNWDSlXlJWMrp2W
Published: 2020

29. Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory

Author: Osamu Tajima, Johannes Hubmayr, Suzanne T. Staggs, Aamir Ali, Bejamin Westbrook, Kam Arnold, Trevor Sasse, Charles A. Hill, Frederick Matsuda, Tran Tsan, Kenji Kiuchi, Grant Teply, Andrew Bazarko, Federico Nati, Yuji Chinone, Joseph Seibert, Carlos Sierra, Nicholas Galitzki, Zhilei Xu, Peter Ashton, Ningfeng Zhu, Erin Healy, Haruki Nishino, Sara M. Simon, Shannon M. Duff, Kevin D. Crowley, Mario Zannoni, Edward J. Wollack, Jacob Spisak, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Christopher Raum, Lance Corbett, Adrian T. Lee, Aashrita Mangu, Kathleen Harrington, Michael Ludlam, Yuki Sakurai, Shunsuke Adachi, Gabriele Coppi, Maria Salatino, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Mark J. Devlin, Christopher G. Ellis, Heather McCarrick, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Akito Kusaka, Brian Keating, Simon Dicker, Ali, A, Adachi, S, Arnold, K, Ashton, P, Bazarko, A, Chinone, Y, Coppi, G, Corbett, L, Crowley, K, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Duff, S, Ellis, C, Galitzki, N, Goeckner-Wald, N, Harrington, K, Healy, E, Hill, C, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Keating, B, Kiuchi, K, Kusaka, A, Lee, A, Ludlam, M, Mangu, A, Matsuda, F, Mccarrick, H, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Nishino, H, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Sathyanarayana Rao, M, Raum, C, Sakurai, Y, Salatino, M, Sasse, T, Seibert, J, Sierra, C, Silva-Feaver, M, Spisak, J, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Tajima, O, Teply, G, Tsan, T, Wollack, E, Westbrook, B, Xu, Z, Zannoni, M, and Zhu, N
Subjects: Small aperture telescope, TES, Refractor, Simons Observatory, Cosmic microwave background, CMB, Inflation, Cosmology, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Radio spectrum, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Telescope, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Sky, Refracting telescope, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: 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 polarization in six frequency bands spanning 27 to 285 GHz. SO will consist of one 6-m large aperture telescope fielding $$\sim$$ 30,000 detectors and an array of three 0.42-m small aperture telescopes (SATs) fielding an additional 30,000 detectors. This synergy will allow for the extremely sensitive characterization of the CMB over angular scales ranging from an arcmin to tens of degrees, enabling a wide range of scientific output. Here we focus on the SATs targeting degree angular scales with successive dichroic instruments observing at mid-frequency (MF: 93/145 GHz), ultra-high-frequency (UHF: 225/285 GHz), and low-frequency (LF: 27/39 GHz). The three SATs will be able to map $$\sim$$ 10% of the sky to a noise level of $$\sim$$ $$2\,\upmu {\hbox {K}}$$ -arcmin when combining 93 and 145 GHz. The multiple frequency bands will allow the CMB to be separated from galactic foregrounds (primarily synchrotron and dust), with the primary science goal of characterizing the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, at a target level of $$\sigma (r) \approx 0.003$$ .
Published: 2020

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

Author: Kavilan Moodley, Emilie R. Storer, Simone Aiola, Phumlani Phakathi, Jeff Van Lanen, E. Grace, Stefania Amodeo, Felipe Rojas, Yaqiong Li, Nick Battaglia, Precious Sikhosana, Suzanne T. Staggs, Vera Gluscevic, Robert Thornton, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Christine G. Pappas, Rolando Dünner, Danica Marsden, Yilun Guan, Felipe Carrero, Blake D. Sherwin, Sigurd Naess, Leopoldo Infante, Adam D. Hincks, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Brittany Fuzia, Graeme E. Addison, Kasey Wagoner, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Jason E. Austermann, Sarah Marie Bruno, Matthew Hasselfield, Naomi Robertson, Jesse Treu, Vincent Lakey, John P. Nibarger, Timothy D. Morton, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Jesus Rivera, Michael R. Nolta, Zack Li, Shawn W. Henderson, Max Fankhanel, Martine Lokken, B. Thorne, Mark J. Devlin, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, James A. Beall, Yuhan Wang, Kevin T. Crowley, John Orlowski-Sherer, Bruce Partridge, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Laura Newburgh, Grace E. Chesmore, Alessandro Schillaci, Jon Sievers, Dhaneshwar D. Sunder, Federico Nati, Rahul Datta, Dale Li, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Shannon M. Duff, Edward V. Denison, Peter A. R. Ade, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Erminia Calabrese, Roberto Puddu, J. Colin Hill, Elio Angile, Jo Dunkley, Omar Darwish, Kenda Knowles, Marius Lungu, Megan Gralla, Susan E. Clark, Jeff Klein, Fernando Zago, Dongwon Han, Brandon S. Hensley, Devin Crichton, Renée Hložek, Peter Charles Hargrave, Frank J. Qu, Neelima Sehgal, Leila R. Vale, Matt Hilton, Gene C. Hilton, Joseph E. Golec, Heather Prince, Mandana Amiri, Alexander van Engelen, Maria Salatino, Loïc Maurin, Andrina Nicola, Lyman A. Page, Thibaut Louis, Steve K. Choi, Michael D. Niemack, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Nicholas F. Cothard, Victoria Calafut, Jonathan T. Ward, Carole Tucker, Arthur Kosowsky, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Kent D. Irwin, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Edward J. Wollack, Anna E. Fox, Ningfeng Zhu, Amanda MacInnis, Felipe Maldonado, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Cristóbal Sifón, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Hy Trac, Patricio A. Gallardo, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Taylor Baildon, Luis E. Campusano, Rebecca Jackson, Carlos Sierra, Felipe Menanteau, Jason R. Stevens, John P. Hughes, Cody J. Duell, Eric R. Switzer, Kirsten Hall, Rachel Bean, David Alonso, Choi, S, Hasselfield, M, Ho, S, Koopman, B, Lungu, M, Abitbol, M, Addison, G, Ade, P, Aiola, S, Alonso, D, Amiri, M, Amodeo, S, Angile, E, Austermann, J, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Bean, R, Becker, D, Richard Bond, J, Bruno, S, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Campusano, L, Carrero, F, Chesmore, G, Cho, H, Clark, S, Cothard, N, Crichton, D, Crowley, K, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Essinger-Hileman, T, Fankhanel, M, Ferraro, S, Fox, A, Fuzia, B, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Golec, J, Grace, E, Gralla, M, Guan, Y, Hall, K, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hargrave, P, Henderson, S, Hensley, B, Colin Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Infante, L, Irwin, K, Jackson, R, Klein, J, Knowles, K, Kosowsky, A, Lakey, V, Li, D, Li, Y, Li, Z, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Maldonado, F, Mallaby-Kay, M, Marsden, D, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Menanteau, F, Moodley, K, Morton, T, Naess, S, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Nicola, A, Niemack, M, Nolta, M, Orlowski-Sherer, J, Page, L, Pappas, C, Partridge, B, Phakathi, P, Prince, H, Puddu, R, Qu, F, Rivera, J, Robertson, N, Rojas, F, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sierra, C, Sievers, J, Sifon, C, Sikhosana, P, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Storer, E, Sunder, D, Switzer, E, Thorne, B, Thornton, R, Trac, H, Treu, J, Tucker, C, Vale, L, van Engelen, A, van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, Wagoner, K, Wang, Y, Ward, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zago, F, Zhu, N, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ACT
Subjects: Physics, CMBR polarisation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmological parameters from CMBR, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg$^2$ of the 2013-2016 survey, which covers $>$15000 deg$^2$ at 98 and 150 GHz. For this analysis we adopt a blinding strategy to help avoid confirmation bias and, related to this, show numerous checks for systematic error done before unblinding. Using the likelihood for the cosmological analysis we constrain secondary sources of anisotropy and foreground emission, and derive a "CMB-only" spectrum that extends to $\ell=4000$. At large angular scales, foreground emission at 150 GHz is $\sim$1% of TT and EE within our selected regions and consistent with that found by Planck. Using the same likelihood, we obtain the cosmological parameters for $\Lambda$CDM for the ACT data alone with a prior on the optical depth of $\tau=0.065\pm0.015$. $\Lambda$CDM is a good fit. The best-fit model has a reduced $\chi^2$ of 1.07 (PTE=0.07) with $H_0=67.9\pm1.5$ km/s/Mpc. We show that the lensing BB signal is consistent with $\Lambda$CDM and limit the celestial EB polarization angle to $\psi_P =-0.07^{\circ}\pm0.09^{\circ}$. We directly cross correlate ACT with Planck and observe generally good agreement but with some discrepancies in TE. All data on which this analysis is based will be publicly released., Comment: 44 pages, 27 figures, products available on the NASA LAMBDA website, version accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2020
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31. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on cosmic birefringence

Author: Michael D. Niemack, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Sigurd Naess, J. Richard Bond, Adam D. Hincks, Neelima Sehgal, Kavilan Moodley, Loïc Maurin, Thibaut Louis, Joanna Dunkley, Grace E. Chesmore, Frank J. Qu, Omar Darwish, Johannes Hubmayr, Simone Aiola, Gene C. Hilton, Lyman A. Page, Toshiya Namikawa, Rolando Dünner, Maya Mallaby-Kay, C. Sifon, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Daniel T. Becker, Amanda MacInnis, Alexander van Engelen, Renée Hložek, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield, Blake D. Sherwin, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Yilun Guan, Laura Newburgh, Vera Gluscevic, Arthur Kosowsky, Jeff Van Lanen, Edward J. Wollack, Anna E. Fox, Brian J. Koopman, Erminia Calabrese, Jeff McMahon, James A. Beall, Steve K. Choi, Alessandro Schillaci, Naomi Robertson, Nicholas Battaglia, Marius Lungu, John P. Hughes, Suzanne T. Staggs, David N. Spergel, Federico Nati, Dongwon Han, Namikawa, T, Guan, Y, Darwish, O, Sherwin, B, Aiola, S, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Becker, D, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Chesmore, G, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Fox, A, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, G, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mallaby-Kay, M, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Page, L, Qu, F, Robertson, N, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: data analysis method, cosmological model, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, cosmic background radiation: polarization, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, current: constraint, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), statistical analysis, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Cosmic Birefringence, CMB, Cosmology, inflation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Axion, Physics, Birefringence, birefringence, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Chern-Simons term, photon, coupling constant, Polarization (waves), Massless particle, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Amplitude, axion, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Atacama Cosmology Telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation: anisotropy
Abstract: We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456$ square degrees of sky. The birefringence power spectrum, measured using a curved-sky quadratic estimator, is consistent with zero. Our results provide the tightest current constraint on birefringence over a range of angular scales between $5$ arcminutes and $9$ degrees. We improve previous upper limits on the amplitude of a scale-invariant birefringence power spectrum by a factor of between $2$ and $3$. Assuming a nearly-massless axion field during inflation, our result is equivalent to a $2\,\sigma$ upper limit on the Chern-Simons coupling constant between axions and photons of $g_{\alpha\gamma}, Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in PRD
Published: 2020

32. The optical design and performance of TolTEC: a millimeter-wave imaging polarimeter

Author: Emily Lunde, Michael McCrackan, Nat DeNigris, Jeffrey McMahon, Giles Novak, Eric Van Camp, Simon Doyle, Carole Tucker, Reid Contente, D. Ferrusca, Zhiyuan Ma, Dennis Lee, Kamal Souccar, Stephen Kuczarski, Giampaolo Pisano, Matthew Underhill, Peter A. R. Ade, Philip Mauskopf, Marc Berthoud, Grant Wilson, Joey Golec, and Sara M. Simon
Subjects: Physics, Cryostat, Lyot stop, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Large Millimeter Telescope, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Cardinal point, Achromatic lens, law, Dichroic filter, Millimetre wave astronomy, sub-millimetre astronomy, polarimetry, business, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Millimetre wave astronomy, sub-millimetre astronomy, polarimetry
Abstract: TolTEC is an imaging polarimeter that will be mounted on the 50m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico. This camera simultaneously images the focal plane at three wavebands centered at 1.1, 1.4, and 2.0mm. TolTEC combines polarization-sensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) with the LMT to produce 5-10 arcmin resolution maps of the sky in both total intensity and polarization. The light from the telescope is coupled to the TolTEC instrument using three room temperature mirrors. Before entering the cryostat, the light passes through a rapid-spinning achromatic half-wave plate, and once inside it passes through a 1 K Lyot stop that controls the telescope illumination. Inside the cryostat, a series of aluminum mirrors, silicon lenses, and dichroic filters split the light into three wavelength bands and direct each band to a different detector array. We will describe the design, and performance of the optics before installation at the telescope.
Published: 2020

33. The Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Detector Module Design

Author: Shannon M. Duff, Sarah Marie Bruno, Kaiwen Zheng, Jason E. Austermann, Heather McCarrick, Suzanne T. Staggs, Zachary Atkins, Sara M. Simon, Michael D. Niemack, Megan Gralla, D. Dutcher, Johannes Hubmayr, John A. B. Mates, Bradley R. Johnson, Zachary B. Huber, Leila R. Vale, Nicholas F. Cothard, Jake Connors, A. M. Kofman, Steve K. Choi, Kam Arnold, Nicholas Galitzki, Tammy J. Lucas, Jeff Van Lanen, Kevin D. Crowley, Shawn W. Henderson, Aritoki Suzuki, Yuhan Wang, C. Yu, Edward D. Young, Simon Dicker, Edward J. Wollack, Akito Kusaka, Joel N. Ullom, Bradley Dober, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed, John Orlowski-Scherer, Adrian T. Lee, Jeffrey Iuliano, Cody J. Duell, Yaqiong Li, Joseph Seibert, Robert Thornton, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Josef Frisch, Ningfeng Zhu, Tomoki Terasaki, Zhilei Xu, Jack Lashner, Tanay Bhandarkar, James A. Beall, Michael J. Link, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Michael R. Vissers, Gene C. Hilton, Marius Lungu, and Jeff McMahon
Subjects: Physics, Squid, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), biology, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Multiplexing, Optics, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, biology.animal, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers tiled densely into ever larger focal planes. High multiplexing factors reduce the thermal loading on the cryogenic receivers and simplify their design. We present the design of focal-plane modules with an order of magnitude higher multiplexing factor than has previously been achieved with TES bolometers. We focus on the novel cold readout component, which employs microwave SQUID multiplexing ($��$mux). Simons Observatory will use 49 modules containing 60,000 bolometers to make exquisitely sensitive measurements of the CMB. We validate the focal-plane module design, presenting measurements of the readout component with and without a prototype detector array of 1728 polarization-sensitive bolometers coupled to feedhorns. The readout component achieves a $95\%$ yield and a 910 multiplexing factor. The median white noise of each readout channel is 65 $\mathrm{pA/\sqrt{Hz}}$. This impacts the projected SO mapping speed by $< 8\%$, which is less than is assumed in the sensitivity projections. The results validate the full functionality of the module. We discuss the measured performance in the context of SO science requirements, which are exceeded., Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2021

34. CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

Author: Shaul Hanany, Georges Obied, J. Colin Hill, Thomas Cecil, Keith L. Thompson, Adam Anderson, Michael L. Brown, Doug Johnstone, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Erminia Calabrese, Howard Hui, Haruki Nishino, Sara M. Simon, James Kerby, Theodore Kisner, K. T. Story, Moritz Münchmeyer, Aritoki Suzuki, Joseph J. Mohr, Adrian T. Lee, Bradley R. Johnson, Sanah Bhimani, W. C. Jones, A. E. Lowitz, Nathan Whitehorn, Valentine Novosad, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Anze Slosar, Kam Arnold, Kevork N. Abazajian, Mustafa A. Amin, Evan Grohs, Abigail G. Vieregg, Siavash Yasini, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Julien Carron, Ritoban Basu Thakur, Jean-Baptiste Melin, Shawn W. Henderson, Asantha Cooray, Chris Stoughton, Peter Timbie, Matteo Bonato, Ki Won Yoon, Blakesley Burkhart, Salman Habib, T. Natoli, Jacques Delabrouille, Carlo Baccigalupi, Victor Guarino, Steven W. Allen, Kathy Bailey, Aurelien A. Fraisse, Osamu Tajima, Silvia Galli, Denis Barkats, Antony Lewis, Ari Cukierman, Johannes Hubmayr, Marilena LoVerde, Erik Shirokoff, G. P. Holder, James G. Bartlett, James Yeck, Dale Li, N. W. Halverson, Graeme E. Addison, Adam Mantz, Matthieu Tristram, Laura Newburgh, Sarah Shandera, Alessandro Schillaci, Lindsey Bleem, Raphael Flauger, Marcel Schmittfull, S. Pandey, Kent D. Irwin, N. Kurita, Gregory S. Tucker, Matthew Hasselfield, Reijo Keskitalo, Levon Pogosian, Rachel S. Somerville, C. D. Sheehy, Srini Rajagopalan, Jesse Treu, Giuseppe Puglisi, Eric J. Baxter, John M Kovac, Emmanuel Schaan, Marcel Demarteau, Akito Kusaka, Suzanne T. Staggs, Kirit Karkare, Josquin Errard, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Anne Lähteenmäki, Mattia Negrello, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Edo Berger, François R. Bouchet, Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederick Matsuda, Joseph Eimer, Alexandra S. Rahlin, W. L. Kimmy Wu, Giulio Fabbian, Chao-Lin Kuo, Christian L. Reichardt, Marius Millea, Stephen Padin, A. T. Crites, Joel Meyers, William Edwards, R. Gualtieri, Jason W. Henning, Arthur Kosowsky, Edward J. Wollack, W. L. Holzapfel, Michael D. Niemack, John E. Carlstrom, Rachel Bean, Cora Dvorkin, Ely D. Kovetz, David Alonso, Nicholas Battaglia, Sean Bryan, Gianfranco De Zotti, Anthony Challinor, Graca Rocha, Federico Nati, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Katrin Heitmann, Eric V. Linder, Antony A. Stark, Martin Nordby, Grant Teply, Benjamin Saliwanchik, Peter Adshead, P. Daniel Meerburg, Victoria Calafut, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, M.E. Huffer, Chris Bebek, Lloyd Knox, Masashi Hazumi, Eleonora Di Valentino, Natalie A. Roe, Nicholas Galitzki, Masaya Hasegawa, Sarah Kernovsky, Victor Buza, Darcy Barron, C. Pryke, Tijmen de Haan, Tony Mroczkowski, Vera Gluscevic, Andrea Zonca, Daniel Green, Kimberly K. Boddy, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Jeff McMahon, J. E. Ruhl, Steve Kuhlmann, Blake D. Sherwin, Joaquin Vieira, Peter S. Barry, Daisuke Nagai, Karen Byrum, Neelima Sehgal, Murdock Gilchriese, Marco Raveri, M. Tomasi, Douglas Scott, James J. Bock, Martin White, Chang Feng, Ken Ganga, Martina Gerbino, Suvodip Mukherjee, Radek Stompor, Gensheng Wang, B. Racine, Mark Reichanadter, Paul O'Connor, Alexander van Engelen, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Maria Salatino, Kathleen Harrington, Nobuhiko Katayama, Bradford Benson, Daniel Grin, Colin A. Bischoff, Charles R. Lawrence, Mark Vogelsberger, Shannon M. Duff, Scott Watson, Sebastian Bocquet, C. Umiltà, Andrei V. Frolov, C. L. Chang, Johanna Nagy, J. Richard Bond, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, B. Flaugher, Robert R. Caldwell, Mark J. Devlin, Renée Hlozek, Anirban Roy, Elena Pierpaoli, Amy N. Bender, Bruce Partridge, E. Y. Young, Matt Dobbs, Julian Borrill, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Yuji Chinone, Mathieu Remazeilles, T. M. Crawford, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho, and Gunther Haller
Subjects: White paper, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Environmental science, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Project plan, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Abstract: 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 consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey.
Published: 2019

35. Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Simons Observatory

Author: Shannon M. Duff, Michael D. Niemack, Christopher Raum, Nicholas F. Cothard, Sara M. Simon, Gene C. Hilton, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi, Maria Salatino, Edward J. Wollack, Johannes Hubmayr, Zhilei Xu, Trevor Sasse, Mario Renzullo, Aashrita Mangu, Joel N. Ullom, Suzanne T. Staggs, Thuong D. Hoang, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Aamir Ali, John Vivalda, Benjamin Westbrook, Federico Nati, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Adrian T. Lee, Bradley Dober, Cody J. Duell, Kam Arnold, Daniel Yohannes, Michael R. Vissers, Samantha Walker, Aritoki Suzuki, Jason R. Stevens, Patrick Truitt, Stevens, J, Cothard, N, Vavagiakis, E, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Austermann, J, Choi, S, Dober, B, Duell, C, Duff, S, Hilton, G, Ho, S, Hoang, T, Hubmayr, J, Lee, A, Mangu, A, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Raum, C, Renzullo, M, Salatino, M, Sasse, T, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Suzuki, A, Truitt, P, Ullom, J, Vivalda, J, Vissers, M, Walker, S, Westbrook, B, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, and Yohannes, D
Subjects: Simons Observatory, Aperture, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Noise (electronics), 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Dilution refrigerator, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, SQUID, NIST, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, TES
Abstract: The Simons Observatory is building both large (6 m) and small (0.5 m) aperture telescopes in the Atacama desert in Chile to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with unprecedented sensitivity. Simons Observatory telescopes in total will use over 60,000 transition edge sensor (TES) detectors spanning center frequencies between 27 and 285 GHz and operating near 100 mK. TES devices have been fabricated for the Simons Observatory by NIST, Berkeley, and HYPRES/SeeQC corporation. Iterations of these devices have been tested cryogenically in order to inform the fabrication of further devices, which will culminate in the final TES designs to be deployed in the field. The detailed design specifications have been independently iterated at each fabrication facility for particular detector frequencies. We present test results for prototype devices, with emphasis on NIST high frequency detectors. A dilution refrigerator was used to achieve the required temperatures. Measurements were made both with 4-lead resistance measurements and with a time domain Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) multiplexer system. The SQUID readout measurements include analysis of current vs voltage (IV) curves at various temperatures, square wave bias step measurements, and detector noise measurements. Normal resistance, superconducting critical temperature, saturation power, thermal and natural time constants, and thermal properties of the devices are extracted from these measurements., Comment: 9 Pages, 5 figures, Low Temperature Detectors 19
Published: 2019
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36. The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches

Author: Valentina Fanfani, Mario Zannoni, Mark J. Devlin, J. Colin Hill, Josquin Errard, Aritoki Suzuki, Gabriele Coppi, Edward J. Wollack, Julien Carron, Adrian T. Lee, Thibaut Louis, Davide Poletti, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Michael L. Brown, Baptiste Jost, Brian Keating, Federico Nati, P. Daniel Meerburg, S. Azzoni, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Haruki Nishino, Sara M. Simon, Michael J. Randall, Jacob Spisak, Lyman A. Page, Bradley R. Johnson, Jo Dunkley, Yuji Chinone, Aamir Ali, David Alonso, Grant Teply, Jeff McMahon, Carlo Baccigalupi, Clara Vergès, Jens Chluba, Aditya Rotti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Nicholas Galitzki, Kevin D. Crowley, Martina Gerbino, Zhilei Xu, Jack Lashner, Erminia Calabrese, Kevin T. Crowley, Darcy Barron, Akito Kusaka, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Heather McCarrick, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and G, High-Energy Frontier, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), APC - Cosmologie, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-17-CE31-0022,BxB,Champs B interstellaires et modes B de l'inflation(2017), ANR-17-CE23-0002,B3DCMB,Big Bang à partir de Big Data (du fond diffus cosmologique)(2017), Abitbol, M, Alonso, D, Simon, S, Lashner, J, Crowley, K, Ali, A, Azzoni, S, Baccigalupi, C, Barron, D, Brown, M, Calabrese, E, Carron, J, Chinone, Y, Chluba, J, Coppi, G, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Errard, J, Fanfani, V, Galitzki, N, Gerbino, M, Colin Hill, J, Johnson, B, Jost, B, Keating, B, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kusaka, A, Lee, A, Louis, T, Madhavacheril, M, Mccarrick, H, Mcmahon, J, Daniel Meerburg, P, Nati, F, Nishino, H, Page, L, Poletti, D, Puglisi, G, Randall, M, Rotti, A, Spisak, J, Suzuki, A, Teply, G, Vergès, C, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, and Zannoni, M
Subjects: CMBR polarisation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Calibration (statistics), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Parameter space, Residual, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Particle and Plasma Physics, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Band-pass filter, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, CMBR experiments, Nuclear, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, CMBR polarization, Physics, Settore FIS/05, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, cosmological parameters from CMBR, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Nuclear & Particles Physics, gravitational waves and CMBR polarization, Computational physics, astro-ph.CO, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Focus (optics), Astronomical and Space Sciences, astro-ph.IM, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory (SO). We explore uncertainties on gain calibration, bandpass center frequencies, and polarization angles, including the frequency variation of the latter across the bandpass. We find that gain calibration and bandpass center frequencies must be known to percent levels or less to avoid biases on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ on the order of $\Delta r\sim10^{-3}$, in line with previous findings. Polarization angles must be calibrated to the level of a few tenths of a degree, while their frequency variation between the edges of the band must be known to ${\cal O}(10)$ degrees. Given the tightness of these calibration requirements, we explore the level to which residual uncertainties on these systematics would affect the final constraints on $r$ if included in the data model and marginalized over. We find that the additional parameter freedom does not degrade the final constraints on $r$ significantly, broadening the error bar by ${\cal O}(10\%)$ at most. We validate these results by reanalyzing the latest publicly available data from the BICEP2/Keck collaboration within an extended parameter space covering both cosmological, foreground and systematic parameters. Finally, our results are discussed in light of the instrument design and calibration studies carried out within SO., Comment: 41 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2021

37. The First Multichroic Polarimeter Array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Characterization and Performance

Author: Christine G. Pappas, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, Maria Salatino, Shawn W. Henderson, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Shannon M. Duff, Emily Grace, Sara M. Simon, Suzanne T. Staggs, Dan Becker, J. Austermann, Johannes Hubmayr, Patricio A. Gallardo, Prajwal Niraula, S. P. Ho, Matthew Hasselfield, Alessandro Schillaci, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Dale Li, Edward J. Wollack, Steve K. Choi, Gene C. Hilton, Jason R. Stevens, Federico Nati, Rahul Datta, Michael D. Niemack, Jonathan T. Ward, J. A. Beall, Ho, S, Pappas, C, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Becker, D, Choi, S, Datta, R, Duff, S, Gallardo, P, Grace, E, Hasselfield, M, Henderson, S, Hilton, G, Hubmayr, J, Koopman, B, Lanen, J, Li, D, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Niraula, P, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Ward, J, Wollack, E, and Vavagiakis, E
Subjects: and Optic, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, SQUID, Dichroic glass, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, ACTPol, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Multichroic, Polarimeter, First light, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atomic and Molecular Physic, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Materials Science (all), business, Transition edge sensor
Abstract: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) is a polarization sensitive receiver for the 6-m Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and measures the small angular scale polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The full focal plane is composed of three detector arrays, containing over 3000 transition edge sensors (TES detectors) in total. The first two detector arrays, observing at 146 GHz, were deployed in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The third and final array is composed of multichroic pixels sensitive to both 90 and 146 GHz and saw first light in February 2015. Fabricated at NIST, this dichroic array consists of 255 pixels, with a total of 1020 polarization sensitive bolometers and is coupled to the telescope with a monolithic array of broad-band silicon feedhorns. The detectors are read out using time-division SQUID multiplexing and cooled by a dilution refrigerator at 110 mK. We present an overview of the assembly and characterization of this multichroic array in the lab, and the initial detector performance in Chile. The detector array has a TES detector electrical yield of 85 %, a total array sensitivity of less than 10 $$\upmu $$ K $$\sqrt{\text {s}}$$ , and detector time constants and saturation powers suitable for ACT CMB observations.
Published: 2016

38. High-Density Superconducting Cables for Advanced ACTPol

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Suzanne T. Staggs, J. Austermann, Federico Nati, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Shannon M. Duff, Emily Grace, Edward J. Wollack, Sara M. Simon, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Prajwal Niraula, Michael D. Niemack, Shawn W. Henderson, Alessandro Schillaci, Jonathan T. Ward, Patricio A. Gallardo, Jason R. Stevens, S. P. Ho, Maria Salatino, J. A. Beall, Dale Li, Christine G. Pappas, Pappas, C, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Duff, S, Gallardo, P, Grace, E, Henderson, S, Ho, S, Koopman, B, Li, D, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Niraula, P, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Vavagiakis, E, Ward, J, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Wire bonding, Fabrication, Materials science, Cryogenics, 01 natural sciences, Flex, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, FLEX, General Materials Science, Wafer, 010306 general physics, ACTPol, 010302 applied physics, business.industry, Detector, Condensed Matter Physics, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Upgrade, Optoelectronics, Superconductor, Materials Science (all), and Optics, business
Abstract: Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) is an upcoming Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) receiver upgrade, scheduled to deploy in 2016, that will allow measurement of the cosmic microwave background polarization and temperature to the highest precision yet with ACT. The AdvACT increase in sensitivity is partly provided by an increase in the number of transition-edge sensors (TESes) per array by up to a factor of two over the current ACTPol receiver detector arrays. The high-density AdvACT TES arrays require 70 $$\upmu $$ m pitch superconducting flexible cables (flex) to connect the detector wafer to the first-stage readout electronics. Here, we present the flex fabrication process and test results. For the flex wiring layer, we use a 400-nm-thick sputtered aluminum film. In the center of the cable, the wiring is supported by a polyimide substrate, which smoothly transitions to a bare (uncoated with polyimide) silicon substrate at the ends of the cable for a robust wedge wire-bonding interface. Tests on the first batch of flex made for the first AdvACT array show that the flex will meet the requirements for AdvACT, with a superconducting critical current above 1 mA at 500 mK, resilience to mechanical and cryogenic stress, and a room temperature yield of 97 $$\,\%$$ .
Published: 2016

39. Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver Design Overview

Author: Peter C. Ashton, Suzanne T. Staggs, Jeff McMahon, Max Silva-Feaver, Michael D. Niemack, Gabriele Coppi, John Orlowski-Scherer, Adrian T. Lee, Johannes Hubmayr, Lucio Piccirillo, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Aamir Ali, Kam Arnold, Benjamin Westbrook, Brian Keating, Simon Dicker, Zhilei Xu, Andrew J. May, Shawn W. Henderson, Robert Thornton, Sara M. Simon, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Joel N. Ullom, Michele Limon, Edward J. Wollack, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Nicholas Galitzki, Giuseppe Puglisi, Marius Lungu, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Ningfeng Zhu, Maria Salatino, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Zmuidzinas J.,Gao J.-R., Zhu, N, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Xu, Z, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Ashton, P, Coppi, G, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Galitzki, N, Gallardo, P, Henderson, S, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Keating, B, Lee, A, Limon, M, Lungu, M, Mauskopf, P, May, A, Mcmahon, J, Niemack, M, Piccirillo, L, Puglisi, G, Rao, M, Salatino, M, Silva-Feaver, M, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Thornton, R, Ullom, J, Vavagiakis, E, Westbrook, B, Wollack, E, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Cryostat, Simons Observatory, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, LATR, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, 01 natural sciences, ground-based telescope, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], cryogenic, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, SO, Settore FIS/05, business.industry, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Strehl ratio, Polarization (waves), Cardinal point, large aperture telescope receiver, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; 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 angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees and sample frequencies between 27 and 270 GHz. Here we present the current design of the large aperture telescope receiver (LATR), a 2.4m diameter cryostat that will be mounted on the SO 6m telescope and will be the largest CMB receiver to date. The cryostat size was chosen to take advantage of the large focal plane area having high Strehl ratios, which is inherent to the Cross-Dragone telescope design. The LATR will be able to accommodate thirteen optics tubes, each having a 36 cm diameter aperture and illuminating several thousand transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. This set of equipment will provide an opportunity to make measurements with unparalleled sensitivity. However, the size and complexity of the LATR also pose numerous technical challenges. In the following paper, we present the design of the LATR and include how we address these challenges. The solutions we develop in the process of designing the LATR will be informative for the general CMB community, and for future CMB experiments like CMB-S4.
Published: 2018

40. Far sidelobes from baffles and telescope support structures in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Edward J. Wollack, Sara M. Simon, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Rolando Dünner, Patricio A. Gallardo, and Roberto Puddu
Subjects: Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Stray light, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Physical optics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optical path, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Secondary mirror, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is a 6 m telescope located in the Atacama Desert, designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with arcminute resolution. ACT, with its third generation polarization sensitive array, Advanced ACTPol, is being used to measure the anisotropies of the CMB in five frequency bands in large areas of the sky ($\sim 15,000$ $\rm deg^2$). These measurements are designed to characterize the large scale structure of the universe, test cosmological models and constrain the sum of the neutrino masses. As the sensitivity of these wide surveys increases, the control and validation of the far sidelobe response becomes increasingly important and is particularly challenging as multiple reflections, spillover, diffraction and scattering become difficult to model and characterize at the required levels. In this work, we present a ray trace model of the ACT upper structure which is used to describe much of the observed far sidelobe pattern. This model combines secondary mirror spillover measurements with a 3D CAD model based on photogrammetry measurements to simulate the beam of the camera and the comoving ground shield. This simulation shows qualitative agreement with physical optics tools and features observed in far sidelobe measurements. We present this method as an efficient first-order calculation that, although it does not capture all diffraction effects, informs interactions between the structural components of the telescope and the optical path, which can then be combined with more computationally intensive physical optics calculations. This method can be used to predict sidelobe patterns in the design stage of future optical systems such as the Simons Observatory, CCAT-prime, and CMB Stage IV., Poster presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2018
Published: 2018

41. Systematic uncertainties in the Simons Observatory: optical effects and sensitivity considerations

Author: Federico Nati, Brian Keating, Simon Dicker, Zhilei Xu, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, C. L. Reichardt, Mark J. Devlin, Frederick Matsuda, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Giulio Fabbian, S. T. Staggs, S. Parshley, Jacob Lashner, Maria Salatino, Yuji Chinone, Edward J. Wollack, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Gabriele Coppi, Ningfeng Zhu, Sean Bryan, A. T. Lee, C. Hill, Akito Kusaka, Aamir Ali, Giuseppe Puglisi, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Aritoki Suzuki, Nicholas Galitzki, Michele Limon, J. Orlowski-Scherer, Patricio A. Gallardo, Sara M. Simon, Michael D. Niemack, and Nicholas F. Cothard
Subjects: Physics, Aperture, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, Observatory, law, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, 0210 nano-technology, business, Focus (optics), Microwave, media_common
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new experiment that aims to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. SO will measure the polarized sky over a large range of microwave frequencies and angular scales using a combination of small (~0.5 m) and large (~6 m) aperture telescopes and will be located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This work is part of a series of papers studying calibration, sensitivity, and systematic errors for SO. In this paper, we discuss current efforts to model optical systematic effects, how these have been used to guide the design of the SO instrument, and how these studies can be used to inform instrument design of future experiments like CMB-S4. While optical systematics studies are underway for both the small aperture and large aperture telescopes, we limit the focus of this paper to the more mature large aperture telescope design for which our studies include: pointing errors, optical distortions, beam ellipticity, cross-polar response, instrumental polarization rotation and various forms of sidelobe pickup.
Published: 2018

42. Electrothermal characterization of AlMn transition-edge sensor bolometers for advanced ACTPol

Author: Gene C. Hilton, Sara M. Simon, Shannon M. Duff, Kevin T. Crowley, Edward J. Wollack, Suzanne T. Staggs, Joel N. Ullom, Johannes Hubmayr, Patricio A. Gallardo, and Jason E. Austermann
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Amplifier, Detector, Bolometer, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, law.invention, Optics, Observatory, law, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business, Electrical impedance
Abstract: Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization anisotropy measurements demand large (104-105) numbers of high-performing detectors in order to unveil minute signals. At the forefront of the detector options available to this field are transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers, which use superconducting thin films as extremely sensitive thermistors. Understanding the behavior of these TESes is critical to leveraging their full potential and identifying trade-offs between robustness and sensitivity in their design. In this work, we report on measurements of TES bolometers designed for the Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Using a three-stage SQUID amplifier chain, time-division multiplexing electronics, and an external signal generator, we characterize the impedance and noise properties of a set of test TES bolometers measured in the laboratory, encompassing various designs, over a wide signal band. Using the impedance data, we are able to explore deviations from the assumed bolometer model in use for TES design and instrument sensitivity forecasts. Modeling these deviations as the result of decoupling of bolometer elements, we extract parameters describing this extended model. We are then able to compare the noise spectra of the devices to forward modeling based on the TES parameters in the extended model. We explore how excess noise varies, and conclude with a discussion of how our results can be useful for designing future TES arrays based on the expected impact of the measured effects on instrumental sensitivities, and the relevance of these results to bolometer designs for upcoming CMB experiments like Simons Observatory and CMB-S4.
Published: 2018

43. Performance of the advanced ACTPol low frequency array

Author: Joel N. Ullom, Shannon M. Duff, Johannes Hubmayr, Patricio A. Gallardo, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Yaqiong Li, Edward J. Wollack, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Brian J. Koopman, Sarah Marie Bruno, Sara M. Simon, Jeff McMahon, Jason E. Austermann, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Suzanne T. Staggs, Maria Salatino, Steve K. Choi, Jonathan T. Ward, Jason R. Stevens, and Shawn W. Henderson
Subjects: Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Cosmic microwave background, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Synchrotron radiation, Polarimeter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Low frequency, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, 010306 general physics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) is an upgraded instrument for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, which uses transition-edge sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies in multiple frequency bands. We review the integration and characterization of the final polarimeter array, which is the low frequency (LF) array, consisting of 292 TES bolometers observing in two bands centered at 27 GHz and 39 GHz. This array is sensitive to synchrotron radiation from our galaxy as well as to the CMB, and complements the AdvACT arrays operating at 90, 150 and 230 GHz to provide robust detection and removal of foreground contamination. We present detector parameters for the LF array measured in the lab, including saturation powers, critical temperatures, thermal conductivities, time constants and optical efficiencies, and their uniformity across the entire wafer.
Published: 2018

44. The TolTEC project: a millimeter wavelength imaging polarimeter (Conference Presentation)

Author: Joseph C. Bardin, Walter Kieran Gear, Peter A. R. Ade, Stella S. R. Offner, Emily Lunde, Grant W. Wilson, P. D. Mauskopf, Natalie DeNigris, Evan Scannapieco, Yuping Tang, Jason E. Austermann, Jacob Knapp, Sam Gordon, Hamdi Mani, Gary Wallace, F. Peter Schloerb, David H. Hughes, Sean Bryan, Salvador Ventura, James A. Beall, Kamal Souccar, Alexandra Burkott, John Bussan, S. Rowe, Edgar Castillo, Alexandra Pope, Victor Gómez, Min S. Yun, Peter S. Barry, Mohsen Hosseini, Marc Berthoud, Miguel Chavez, Matt Underhill, Sara M. Simon, Rhys Kelso, Itziar Aretxaga, Simon Doyle, David Sánchez, Justin Mathewson, Miranda Eiben, Mark H. Heyer, M. Velázquez, Ivan Rodriguez Montoya, Alan Braeley, Stephen Kuczarski, Carole Tucker, Johannes Hubmayr, L. M. Fissel, Daniel Ferrusca, Christopher Groppi, Enzo Pascale, Jiansong Gao, Jeff McMahon, Michael R. Vissers, Robert A. Gutermuth, and Giles Novak
Subjects: Data collection, Computer science, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Large Millimeter Telescope, Polarimetry, law.invention, Telescope, Cardinal point, Sky, law, Angular resolution, media_common, Remote sensing
Abstract: The mm-wavelength sky reveals the initial phase of structure formation, at all spatial scales, over the entire observable history of the Universe. Over the past 20 years, advances in mm-wavelength detectors and camera systems have allowed the field to take enormous strides forward – particularly in the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background – but limitations in mapping speeds, sensitivity and resolution have plagued studies of astrophysical phenomena. In fact, limitations due to inherent biases in the ground-based mm-wavelength surveys conducted over the last 2 decades continue to motivate the need for deeper and wider-area maps made with increased angular resolution. TolTEC is a new camera that will fill the focal plane of the 50m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) and provide simultaneous, polarization-sensitive imaging at 2.0, 1.4, and 1.1mm wavelengths. The instrument, now under construction, is a cryogenically cooled receiver housing three separate kilo-pixel arrays of Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) that are coupled to the telescope through a series of silicon lenses and dichroic splitters. TolTEC will be installed and commissioned on the LMT in early 2019 where it will become both a facility instrument and also perform a series of 100 hour “Legacy Surveys” whose data will be publicly available. The initial four surveys in this series: the Clouds to Cores Legacy Survey, the Fields in Filaments Legacy Survey, the Ultra-Deep Legacy Survey and the Large Scale Structure Survey are currently being defined in public working groups of astronomers coordinated by TolTEC Science Team members. Data collection for these surveys will begin in late 2019 with data releases planned for late 2020 and 2021. Herein we describe the instrument concept, provide performance data for key subsystems, and provide an overview of the science, schedule and plans for the initial four Legacy Survey concepts.
Published: 2018

45. Large format arrays of kinetic inductance detectors for the TolTEC millimeter-wave imaging polarimeter (Conference Presentation)

Author: Bradley Dober, Jason E. Austermann, Sean Bryan, Johannes Hubmayr, Christopher M. McKenney, James A. Beall, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Joel N. Ullom, Michael R. Vissers, Gene C. Hilton, Jiansong Gao, Grant W. Wilson, and Sara M. Simon
Subjects: Waveguide (electromagnetism), Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Large Millimeter Telescope, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Large format, Cardinal point, Optics, Extremely high frequency, Dichroic filter, business
Abstract: Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) provide a technological path towards the high-yield, large-format detector arrays needed for the next generation of experiments. The intrinsically integrated readout components of MKIDs generally give rise to high multiplexing factors, simplified assembly, and streamlined experimental integration. We describe the first MKID arrays fabricated and tested on monolithic 150 mm diameter silicon substrates – a crucial scaling in fabrication capacity that is necessary for future large-scale experiments aiming to incorporate hundreds of thousands of detectors in the coming years. The arrays described here are being developed for the TolTEC millimeter-wave imaging polarimeter being constructed for the 50-meter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), with observations planned to begin in early 2019. TolTEC uses dichroic filters to define three physically independent focal planes for operation in observational bands centered at 1.1, 1.4, and 2.0 mm. Each focal plane observes in just one wavelength band, allowing the use of simple to produce, direct-absorption pixel designs with each pixel comprising two detectors that are sensitive to orthogonal states of linear polarization. TolTEC comprises approximately 7,000 polarization sensitive MKIDs designed to operate at a base temperature of 100 mK. The primary working material used for these devices are TiN/Ti/TiN multilayer films, which have several advantageous qualities including: low two-level system noise at the TiN-silicon interface; linear responsivity; uniformity in deposition; and tunable transition temperature, sheet resistance and sheet inductance. We describe the detailed pixel and array layout designs, including focal plane integration and optical coupling via spline-profiled, silicon-platelet, feedhorn-coupled waveguide. We present measurements of full arrays and/or prototype small arrays of devices operating in each of the three observation bands and compare the observed noise and optical performance to that predicted from models and simulations. We also describe the fabrication methods used to produce these large-format arrays with high yield and uniformity.
Published: 2018

46. Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond

Author: Sara M. Simon, Ningfeng Zhu, Yaqiong Li, James A. Beall, Jeff McMahon, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Marius Lungu, Joseph E. Golec, Charles A. Hill, Bradley Dober, Edward J. Wollack, Suzanne T. Staggs, Simon Dicker, Steve K. Choi, Jason E. Austermann, Sarah Marie Bruno, Maria Salatino, Zhilei Xu, Erin Healy, John Orlowski-Scherer, Johannes Hubmayr, Aamir Ali, Shannon M. Duff, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: cosmic microwave background, Fabrication, Simons Observatory, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, fabrication, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 02 engineering and technology, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, Machining, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], spline-profiled, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), scalability, Leakage (electronics), feedhorn, Physics, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), Laser, production, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract: International audience; 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 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity. One technology for coupling light onto the ~50 detector wafers that SO will field is spline-profiled feedhorns, which offer tunability between coupling efficiency and control of beam polarization leakage effects. We will present efforts to scale up feedhorn production for SO and their viability for future CMB experiments, including direct-machining metal feedhorn arrays and laser machining stacked Si arrays.
Published: 2018

47. Prime-Cam: A first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope

Author: Johannes Hubmayr, Richard J. Bond, Gabriele Coppi, Patricio A. Gallardo, Aamir Ali, Zhilei Xu, Jason R. Stevens, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Gordon J. Stacey, Kayla M. Rossi, Z. Ahmed, Terry Herter, Michael R. Vissers, John Orlowski-Scherer, Dominik Riechers, M. Fich, Ningfeng Zhu, Kaustuv Basu, Sara M. Simon, Kent D. Irwin, Carlos Sierra, Douglas Scott, Shannon M. Duff, Joel N. Ullom, Edward J. Wollack, Nick Battaglia, Dongwoo T. Chung, Stephen C. Parshley, Cody J. Duell, M. R. Nolta, Norm Murray, Simon Dicker, Brian J. Koopman, Samantha Walker, Jeff McMahon, S. Henderson, T. Nikola, J. Erler, Ricardo Bustos, Nicholas Galitzki, Gene C. Hilton, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Frank Bertoldi, Scott Chapman, Vavagiakis, E, Ahmed, Z, Ali, A, Basu, K, Battaglia, N, Bertoldi, F, Bond, R, Bustos, R, Chapman, S, Chung, D, Coppi, G, Cothard, N, Dicker, S, Duell, C, Duff, S, Erler, J, Fich, M, Galitzki, N, Gallardo, P, Henderson, S, Herter, T, Hilton, G, Hubmayr, J, Irwin, K, Koopman, B, Mcmahon, J, Murray, N, Niemack, M, Nikola, T, Nolta, M, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Parshley, S, Riechers, D, Rossi, K, Scott, D, Sierra, C, Silva-Feaver, M, Simon, S, Stacey, G, Stevens, J, Ullom, J, Vissers, M, Walker, S, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, and Zhu, N
Subjects: Cryostat, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cryogenic, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Mechanical design, law, 0103 physical sciences, Broadband, Cosmic Microwave Background, Fabry-Perot Interferometry, 010306 general physics, Cryostat design, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Reionization, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Millimeter and sub-millimeter astrophysic, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Focal plane array, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, First light, Sky, Superconducting detectors, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its novel crossed-Dragone optical design will deliver a high throughput, wide field of view capable of illuminating much larger arrays of sub-mm and mm detectors than can existing telescopes. We present an overview of the motivation and design of Prime-Cam, a first-light instrument for CCAT-prime. Prime-Cam will house seven instrument modules in a 1.8 meter diameter cryostat, cooled by a dilution refrigerator. The optical elements will consist of silicon lenses, and the instrument modules can be individually optimized for particular science goals. The current design enables both broadband, dual-polarization measurements and narrow-band, Fabry-Perot spectroscopic imaging using multichroic transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers operating between 190 and 450 GHz. It also includes broadband kinetic induction detectors (KIDs) operating at 860 GHz. This wide range of frequencies will allow excellent characterization and removal of galactic foregrounds, which will enable precision measurements of the sub-mm and mm sky. Prime-Cam will be used to constrain cosmology via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effects, map the intensity of [CII] 158 $\mu$m emission from the Epoch of Reionization, measure Cosmic Microwave Background polarization and foregrounds, and characterize the star formation history over a wide range of redshifts. More information about CCAT-prime can be found at www.ccatobservatory.org., Comment: Presented at SPIE Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, June 15th, 2018
Published: 2018

48. Cooldown strategies and transient thermal simulations for the Simons Observatory

Author: Michael D. Niemack, Grant Teply, Lucio Piccirillo, Maria Salatino, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Marius Lungu, Michele Limon, Andrew May, Gabriele Coppi, Jack L. Orlowski-Scherer, Brian Keating, Simon Dicker, Sara M. Simon, Zhilei Xu, Aamir Ali, Robert Thornton, Ningfeng Zhu, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Nicholas Galitzki, Giuseppe Puglisi, Jeff McMahon, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Coppi, G, Xu, Z, Ali, A, Galitzki, N, Gallardo, P, May, A, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Zhu, N, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Keating, B, Limon, M, Lungu, M, Mcmahon, J, Niemack, M, Piccirillo, L, Puglisi, G, Salatino, M, Simon, S, Teply, G, Thornton, R, Vavagiakis, E, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Cryostat, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cryogenics, Simons Observatory, Aperture, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, CMB, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Dilution refrigerator, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], cryogenic, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Large Aperture Camera, business.industry, Settore FIS/05, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cryocooler, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, simulation, Cosmology, Thermal Simulation, Cryogenics Design, 0210 nano-technology, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; 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-minutes to tens of degrees, contain over 60,000 detectors, and observe in frequency bands between 27 GHz and 270 GHz. SO will consist of a six-meter-aperture telescope initially coupled to roughly 35,000 detectors along with an array of half-meter aperture refractive cameras, coupled to an additional 30,000+ detectors. The large aperture telescope receiver (LATR) is coupled to the SO six-meter crossed Dragone telescope and will be 2.4 m in diameter, weigh over 3 metric tons, and have five cryogenic stages (80 K, 40 K, 4 K, 1 K and 100 mK). The LATR is coupled to the telescope via 13 independent optics tubes containing cryogenic optical elements and detectors. The cryostat will be cooled by two Cryomech PT90 (80 K) and three Cryomech PT420 (40 K and 4 K) pulse tube cryocoolers, with cooling of the 1 K and 100 mK stages by a commercial dilution refrigerator system. The secondo component, the small aperture telescope (SAT), is a single optics tube refractive cameras of 42 cm diameter. Cooling of the SAT stages will be provided by two Cryomech PT420, one of which is dedicated to the dilution refrigeration system which will cool the focal plane to 100 mK. SO will deploy a total of three SATs. In order to estimate the cool down time of the camera systems given their size and complexity, a finite difference code based on an implicit solver has been written to simulate the transient thermal behavior of both cryostats. The result from the simulations presented here predict a 35 day cool down for the LATR. The simulations suggest additional heat switches between stages would be effective in distribution cool down power and reducing the time it takes for the LATR to reach its base temperatures. The SAT is predicted to cool down in one week, which meets the SO design goals.
Published: 2018

49. Development of calibration strategies for the Simons Observatory

Author: Frederick Matsuda, Giuseppe Puglisi, Grant Teply, Ningfeng Zhu, Zhilei Xu, Brian Keating, Christian L. Reichardt, Brian J. Koopman, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Aamir Ali, Jeff McMahon, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Sean Bryan, Kevin D. Crowley, Giulio Fabbian, Martina Gerbino, Patricio A. Gallardo, Federico Nati, Maria Salatino, Akito Kusaka, Yuji Chinone, Sara M. Simon, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Zmuidzinas, J, Gao, JR, Zhu, N, Xu, Z, Salatino, M, Reichardt, C, Puglisi, G, Nati, F, Mcmahon, J, Mauskopf, P, Matsuda, F, Kusaka, A, Koopman, B, Keating, B, Goeckner-Wald, N, Gallardo, P, Fabbian, G, Crowley, K, Chinone, Y, Ali, A, Gerbino, M, Simon, S, Teply, G, Bryan, S, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: cosmic microwave background, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Simons Observatory, Computer science, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], inflation, 010306 general physics, Simons Observatory, cosmic microwave background, calibration, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Remote sensing, Inflation (cosmology), Spectrometer, Gravitational wave, Settore FIS/05, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, neutrinos, calibration, Gravitational lens, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a set of cosmic microwave background instruments that will be deployed in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The key science goals include setting new constraints on cosmic inflation, measuring large scale structure with gravitational lensing, and constraining neutrino masses. Meeting these science goals with SO requires high sensitivity and improved calibration techniques. In this paper, we highlight a few of the most important instrument calibrations, including spectral response, gain stability, and polarization angle calibrations. We present their requirements for SO and experimental techniques that can be employed to reach those requirements., 13 pages, 4 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018
Published: 2018

50. Simons Observatory large aperture receiver simulation overview

Author: Michael D. Niemack, Kam Arnold, Aamir Ali, Mark J. Devlin, Peter Ashton, Patricio A. Gallardo, John Orlowski-Scherer, Maria Salatino, Adrian T. Lee, Gabriele Coppi, Sara M. Simon, Ningfeng Zhu, Andrew May, Max Silva-Feaver, Brian Keating, Simon Dicker, Michele Limon, Lucio Piccirillo, Marius Lungu, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Robert Thornton, Giuseppe Puglisi, Nicholas Galitzki, Jeff McMahon, Zhilei Xu, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Orlowski-Scherer, J, Zhu, N, Xu, Z, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Ashton, P, Coppi, G, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Galitzki, N, Gallardo, P, Keating, B, Lee, A, Limon, M, Lungu, M, May, A, Mcmahon, J, Niemack, M, Piccirillo, L, Puglisi, G, Salatino, M, Silva-Feaver, M, Simon, S, Thornton, R, Vavagiakis, E, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: Simons Observatory, Cosmic microwave background, Dark matter, Finite Element Analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Receiver, 010309 optics, Telescope, Finite Element Analysi, Optics, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Physics, Settore FIS/05, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Redshift, Gravitational lens, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: 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 angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees, contain over 60,000 detectors, and sample frequencies between 27 and 270 GHz. SO will consist of a six-meter-aperture telescope coupled to over 30,000 detectors along with an array of half-meter aperture refractive cameras, which together couple to an additional 30,000+ detectors. SO will measure fundamental cosmological parameters of our universe, find high redshift clusters via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, constrain properties of neutrinos, and seek signatures of dark matter through gravitational lensing. In this paper we will present results of the simulations of the SO large aperture telescope receiver (LATR). We will show details of simulations performed to ensure the structural integrity and thermal performance of our receiver, as well as will present the results of finite element analyses (FEA) of designs for the structural support system. Additionally, a full thermal model for the LATR will be described. The model will be used to ensure we meet our design requirements. Finally, we will present the results of FEA used to identify the primary vibrational modes, and planned methods for suppressing these modes. Design solutions to each of these problems that have been informed by simulation will be presented., Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings of SPIE
Published: 2018

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