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29 March 2024
 
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Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview
Kenji Kiuchi ; Shunsuke Adachi ; Aamir M. Ali ; Kam Arnold ; Peter Ashton ; Jason E. Austermann ; Andrew Bazako ; James A. Beall ; Yuji Chinone ; Gabriele Coppi ; Kevin D. Crowley ; Kevin T. Crowley ; Simon Dicker ; Bradley Dober ; Shannon M. Duff ; Giulio Fabbian ; Nicholas Galitzki ; Joseph E. Golec ; Jon E. Gudmundsson ; Kathleen Harrington ; Masaya Hasegawa ; Makoto Hattori ; Charles A. Hill ; Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho ; Johannes Hubmayr ; Bradley R. Johnson ; Daisuke Kaneko ; Nobuhiko Katayama ; Brian Keating ; Akito Kusaka ; Jack Lashner ; Adrian T. Lee ; Frederick Matsuda ; Heather McCarrick ; Masaaki Murata ; Federico Nati ; Yume Nishinomiya ; Lyman Page ; Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao ; Christian L. Reichardt ; Kana Sakaguri ; Yuki Sakurai ; Joseph Seibert ; Jacob Spisak ; Osamu Tajima ; Grant P. Teply ; Tomoki Terasaki ; Tran Tsan ; Samantha Walker ; Edward J. Wollack ; Zhilei Xu ; Kyohei Yamada ; Mario Zannoni ; Ningfeng Zhu ;
Date 28 Jan 2021
AbstractThe Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture telescope (LAT). In total, SO will field over 60,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers in six spectral bands centered between 27 and 280 GHz in order to achieve the sensitivity necessary to measure or constrain numerous cosmological quantities. In this work, we focus on the SATs which are optimized to search for primordial gravitational waves that are detected as parity-odd polarization patterns called a B-modes on degree scales in the CMB. Each SAT employs a single optics tube with TES arrays operating at 100 mK. The high throughput optics system has a 42 cm aperture and a 35-degree field of view coupled to a 36 cm diameter focal plane. The optics consist of three metamaterial anti-re ection coated silicon lenses. Cryogenic ring baffles with engineered blackbody absorbers are installed in the optics tube to minimize the stray light. The entire optics tube is cooled to 1 K. A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate near the sky side of the aperture stop helps to minimize the effect of atmospheric uctuations. The telescope warm baffling consists of a forebaffle, an elevation stage mounted co-moving shield, and a fixed ground shield that together control the far side-lobes and mitigates ground-synchronous systematics. We present the status of the SAT development.
Source arXiv, 2101.11917
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