Nicholas Galitzki

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

Simons Observatory

Collaboration

•

M. Abitbol
(
- Oxford U.
)

et al.

(Mar 1, 2025)

e-Print:
- 2503.00636 [astro-ph.IM]

pdf

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PROTOCALC, A W-band polarized calibrator for CMB Telescopes: application to Simons Observatory and CLASS

Gabriele Coppi
(
- Milan Bicocca U. and
- INFN, Milan Bicocca
)
,
Nadia Dachlythra
(
- Milan Bicocca U.
)
,
Federico Nati
(
- Milan Bicocca U. and
- INFN, Milan Bicocca
)
,
Rolando Dünner-Planella
(
- Chile U., Catolica
)
,
Alexandre E. Adler
(
- UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. and
- LBNL, Berkeley
)

et al.

(Feb 20, 2025)

e-Print:
- 2502.14473 [astro-ph.IM]

links

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Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

Tanay Bhandarkar
(
- UPenn, Philadelphia
)
,
Saianeesh K. Haridas
(
- UPenn, Philadelphia
)
,
Jeff Iuliano
(
- UPenn, Philadelphia
)
,
Anna Kofman
(
- UPenn, Philadelphia and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.
)
,
Alex Manduca
(
- UPenn, Philadelphia
)

et al.

(Jan 15, 2025)

e-Print:
- 2501.09241 [astro-ph.IM]

pdf

The Simons Observatory: laboratory beam characterization for the first small aperture telescope

Remington G. Gerras
(
- Southern California U.
)
,
Thomas Alford
(
- Chicago U. and
- DESY
)
,
Michael J. Randall
(
- UC, San Diego
)
,
Joseph Seibert
(
- UC, San Diego
)
,
Grace Chesmore
(
- Chicago U. and
- DESY
)

et al.

(Nov 11, 2024)

Published in:
- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 13094 (2024) 130945M
•
e-Print:
- 2411.07318 [astro-ph.IM]

The Simons Observatory: deployment of the observatory control system and supporting infrastructure

et al.

(Jul 25, 2024)

Published in:
- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 13101 (2024) 131014D
•
Contribution to:
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024,
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024, 1463-1481

The Simons Observatory: alarms and detector quality monitoring

David V. Nguyen
(
- Yale U.
)
,
Sanah Bhimani
(
- Yale U.
)
,
Nicholas Galitzki
(
- Texas U. and
- U. Texas, Austin (main)
)
,
Brian J. Koopman
(
- Yale U.
)
,
Jack Lashner
(
- Yale U.
)

et al.

(Jun 20, 2024)

Published in:
- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 13102 (2024) 131022Q
•
Contribution to:
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024,
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024, 1010-1023
•
e-Print:
- 2406.14089 [astro-ph.IM]

Simons Observatory: observatory scheduler and automated data processing

Yilun Guan
(
- U. Toronto, Dunlap Inst. Astron. Astrophys.
)
,
Kathleen Harrington
(
- Argonne, PHY and
- Chicago U.
)
,
Jack Lashner
(
- Yale U.
)
,
Sanah Bhimani
(
- Yale U.
)
,
Kevin T. Crowley
(
- UC, San Diego
)

et al.

(Jun 16, 2024)

Published in:
- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 13101 (2024) 131010V
•
Contribution to:
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024,
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024, 343-358
•
e-Print:
- 2406.10905 [astro-ph.IM]

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Simons Observatory: Predeployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands

et al.

(May 10, 2024)

Published in:
- Astrophys.J.Suppl. 276 (2025) 1, 31
•
e-Print:
- 2405.06868 [astro-ph.IM]

reference search4 citations

The Simons Observatory: Design, Integration, and Testing of the Small Aperture Telescopes

#10

Collaboration

•

Nicholas Galitzki
(
- Texas U. and
- U. Texas, Austin (main)
)

et al.

(May 9, 2024)

Published in:
- Astrophys.J.Suppl. 274 (2024) 2, 33
•
e-Print:
- 2405.05550 [astro-ph.IM]

linksDOI

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The Simons Observatory: Design, Integration, and Current Status of Small Aperture Telescopes

#11

et al.

(Jan 8, 2024)

Published in:
- PoS TAUP2023 (2024) 003
•
Contribution to:
- TAUP 2023
  , 003
•
e-Print:
- 2412.01200 [astro-ph.IM]

The Simons Observatory: Cryogenic half wave plate rotation mechanism for the small aperture telescopes

#12

et al.

(Sep 26, 2023)

Published in:
- Rev.Sci.Instrum. 95 (2024) 2, 024504,
- Rev.Sci.Instrum. 96 (2025) 1, 019901 (erratum)
•
e-Print:
- 2309.14803 [astro-ph.IM]

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The Simons Observatory: A fully remote controlled calibration system with a sparse wire grid for cosmic microwave background telescopes

#13

et al.

(Sep 5, 2023)

Published in:
- Rev.Sci.Instrum. 94 (2023) 12, 124502
•
e-Print:
- 2309.02035 [astro-ph.IM]

reference search6 citations

The Simons Observatory: pipeline comparison and validation for large-scale B-modes

#14

Kevin Wolz
(
- SISSA, Trieste and
- INFN, Trieste
)
,
Susanna Azzoni
(
- Oxford U. and
- Tokyo U., IPMU
)
,
Carlos Hervías-Caimapo
(
- Florida State U. and
- Chile U., Catolica
)
,
Josquin Errard
(
- APC, Paris
)
,
Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff
(
- SISSA, Trieste and
- INFN, Trieste and
- IFPU, Trieste
)

et al.

(Feb 8, 2023)

Published in:
- Astron.Astrophys. 686 (2024) A16
•
e-Print:
- 2302.04276 [astro-ph.CO]

reference search26 citations

Development and performance of universal readout harness for the Simons Observatory

#15

et al.

(Jul 27, 2022)

Published in:
- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 12190 (2022) 912
•
Contribution to:
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022, 912,
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
•
e-Print:
- 2207.13737 [astro-ph.IM]

reference search5 citations

PROTOCALC: an artificial calibrator source for CMB telescopes

#16

et al.

(Jul 15, 2022)

Published in:
- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 12190 (2022) 540
•
Contribution to:
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022, 540,
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
•
e-Print:
- 2207.07595 [astro-ph.IM]

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Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements White Paper

#17

Clarence L. Chang
(
- U. Chicago (main) and
- Argonne
)
,
Kevin M. Huffenberger
(
- Florida State U.
)
,
Bradford A. Benson
(
- Fermilab and
- U. Chicago (main)
)
,
Federico Bianchini
(
- KIPAC, Menlo Park and
- SLAC
)
,
Jens Chluba
(
- Jodrell Bank
)

et al.

(Mar 15, 2022)

Contribution to:
- Snowmass 2021
•
e-Print:
- 2203.07638 [astro-ph.CO]

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Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper

#18

CMB-S4

Collaboration

•

Kevork Abazajian
(
- UC, Irvine (main)
)

et al.

(Mar 15, 2022)

Contribution to:
- Snowmass 2021
•
e-Print:
- 2203.08024 [astro-ph.CO]

reference search120 citations

Snowmass2021 CMB-HD White Paper

#19

CMB-HD

Collaboration

•

Simone Aiola
(
- Flatiron Inst., New York
)

et al.

(Mar 10, 2022)

Contribution to:
- Snowmass 2021
•
e-Print:
- 2203.05728 [astro-ph.CO]

reference search105 citations

Improved Upper Limit on Degree-scale CMB B-mode Polarization Power from the 670 Square-degree POLARBEAR Survey

#20

POLARBEAR

Collaboration

•

S. Adachi
(
- Kyoto U.
)

et al.

(Mar 4, 2022)

Published in:
- Astrophys.J. 931 (2022) 2, 101
•
e-Print:
- 2203.02495 [astro-ph.CO]

reference search21 citations

The Simons Observatory: A large-diameter truss for a refracting telescope cooled to 1 K

#21

et al.

(Jan 16, 2022)

Published in:
- Rev.Sci.Instrum. 93 (2022) 5, 055106,
- Rev.Sci.Instrum. 93 (2022) 055106
•
e-Print:
- 2201.06094 [astro-ph.IM]

reference search5 citations

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program

#22

et al.

(Nov 22, 2021)

Published in:
- J.Low Temp.Phys. 209 (2022) 5-6, 944-952
•
e-Print:
- 2111.11301 [astro-ph.IM]

reference search4 citations

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module

#23

et al.

(Nov 22, 2021)

Published in:
- J.Low Temp.Phys. 209 (2022) 3-4, 667-676
•
e-Print:
- 2111.11495 [astro-ph.IM]

reference search3 citations

The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts

#24

Brandon S. Hensley
(
- Princeton U.
)
,
Susan E. Clark
(
- Stanford U. and
- KIPAC, Menlo Park
)
,
Valentina Fanfani
(
- Milan Bicocca U.
)
,
Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff
(
- SISSA, Trieste and
- IFPU, Trieste and
- INFN, Trieste
)
,
Giulio Fabbian
(
- Flatiron Inst., New York and
- Cardiff U.
)

et al.

(Nov 3, 2021)

Published in:
- Astrophys.J. 929 (2022) 2, 166
•
e-Print:
- 2111.02425 [astro-ph.GA]