The Simons Observatory: Quantifying the impact of beam chromaticity on large-scale B-mode science

Authors: Dachlythra, Nadia, Wolz, Kevin, Azzoni, Susanna, Alonso, David, Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Adler, Alexandre E., Gudmundsson, Jon E., Carones, Alessandro, Coppi, Gabriele, Day-Weiss, Samuel, Errard, Josquin, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gerbino, Martina, Gerras, Remington G., Hervias-Caimapo, Carlos, Hotinli, Selim C., Nati, Federico, Partridge, Bruce, Sueno, Yoshinori, Wollack, Edward J.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01791

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

Authors: Coppi, Gabriele, Dachlythra, Nadia, Nati, Federico, Dünner-Planella, Rolando, Adler, Alexandre E., Errard, Josquin, Galitzki, Nicholas, Li, Yunyang, Petroff, Matthew A., Simon, Sara M., Sang, Ema Tsang King, Aguilar, Amalia Villarrubia, Wollack, Edward J., Zannoni, Mario

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14473

Thermal architecture for a cryogenic super-pressure balloon payload: design and development of the Taurus flight cryostat

Authors: Tartakovsky, Simon, Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Bihary, Rick, Durking, Malcolm, Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas J. L. J., Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hartley, John W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William C., Li, Steven, May, Jared L., Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan L., Romualdez, L. Javier, Vissers, Michael R.

Source: SPIE 2024 Conference 13094, Paper 13094-112

Subject Terms: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18150

Instrument Overview of Taurus: A Balloon-borne CMB and Dust Polarization Experiment

Authors: May, Jared L., Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Bihary, Rick, Durkin, Malcolm, Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas J. L. J., Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hartley, John W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William C., Li, Steven, Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan L., Romualdez, L. Javier, Tartakovsky, Simon, Vissers, Michael R.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01438

Modeling optical systematics for the Taurus CMB experiment

Authors: Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas, Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Hubmayr, Johannes, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Jones, William C., May, Jared L., Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan, Rooney, Christopher, Tartakovsky, Simon, Vissers, Michael R.

Source: JCAP09(2024)061

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11992

The Simons Observatory: Beam characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes

Authors: Dachlythra, Nadia, Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hasselfield, Matthew, Coppi, Gabriele, Adler, Alexandre E., Alonso, David, Azzoni, Susanna, Chesmore, Grace E., Fabbian, Giulio, Ganga, Ken, Gerras, Remington G., Jaffe, Andrew H., Johnson, Bradley R., Keating, Brian, Keskitalo, Reijo, Kisner, Theodore S., Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta, Lungu, Marius, Matsuda, Frederick, Naess, Sigurd, Page, Lyman, Puddu, Roberto, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Simon, Sara M., Teply, Grant, Tsan, Tran, Wollack, Edward J., Wolz, Kevin, Xu, Zhilei

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08995

Impact of half-wave plate systematics on the measurement of cosmic birefringence from CMB polarization

Authors: Monelli, Marta, Komatsu, Eiichiro, Adler, Alexandre E., Billi, Matteo, Campeti, Paolo, Dachlythra, Nadia, Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Gudmundsson, Jon E., Reinecke, Martin

Source: JCAP03(2023)034

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05685

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

Authors: Chesmore, Grace E., Harrington, Kathleen, Sierra, Carlos E., Gallardo, Patricio A., Sutariya, Shreya, Alford, Tommy, Adler, Alexandre E., Bhandarkar, Tanay, Coppi, Gabriele, Dachlythra, Nadia, Golec, Joseph, Gudmundsson, Jon, Haridas, Saianeesh K., Johnson, Bradley R., Kofman, Anna M., Iuliano, Jeffrey, McMahon, Jeff, Niemack, Michael D., Orlowski-Scherer, John, Sarmiento, Karen Perez, Puddu, Roberto, Silva-Feaver, Max, Simon, Sara M., Robe, Julia, Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei

Source: Vol. 61, Issue 34, pp. 10309-10319 (2022)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07040

Modelling ground pickup for microwave telescopes

Authors: Adler, Alexandre E., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Gudmundsson, Jon E.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05662

The Simons Observatory: HoloSim-ML: machine learning applied to the efficient analysis of radio holography measurements of complex optical systems

Authors: Chesmore, Grace E., Adler, Alexandre E., Cothard, Nicholas F., Dachlythra, Nadia, Gallardo, Patricio A., Gudmundsson, Jon, Johnson, Bradley R., Limon, Michele, McMahon, Jeff, Nati, Federico, Niemack, Michael D., Puglisi, Giuseppe, Simon, Sara M., Wollack, Edward J., Wolz, Kevin, Xu, Zhilei, Zhu, Ningfeng

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing, Physics - Optics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04138

Probing frequency-dependent half-wave plate systematics for CMB experiments with full-sky beam convolution simulations

Authors: Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Adler, Alexandre E., Billi, Matteo, Dachlythra, Nadia, Gudmundsson, Jon E.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10437

Modeling sidelobe response for ground-based mm-wavelength telescopes with the geometrical theory of diffraction

Authors: Adler, Alexandre E., Gudmundsson, Jon E.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07613

The Simons Observatory: Modeling Optical Systematics in the Large Aperture Telescope

Authors: Gudmundsson, Jon E., Gallardo, Patricio A., Puddu, Roberto, Dicker, Simon R., Adler, Alexandre E., Ali, Aamir M., Bazarko, Andrew, Chesmore, Grace E., Coppi, Gabriele, Cothard, Nicholas F., Dachlythra, Nadia, Devlin, Mark, Dünner, Rolando, Fabbian, Giulio, Galitzki, Nicholas, Golec, Joseph E., Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty, Hargrave, Peter C., Kofman, Anna M., Lee, Adrian T., Limon, Michele, Matsuda, Frederick T., Mauskopf, Philip D., Moodley, Kavilan, Nati, Federico, Niemack, Michael D., Orlowski-Scherer, John, Page, Lyman A., Partridge, Bruce, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Reichardt, Christian L., Sierra, Carlos E., Simon, Sara M., Teply, Grant P., Tucker, Carole, Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei, Zhu, Ningfeng

Source: Appl. Opt. 60, 823-837 (2021)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10138

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

Authors: Gudmundsson, Jon E., Gallardo, Patricio A., Puddu, Roberto, Dicker, Simon R., Adler, Alexandre E., Ali, Aamir M., Bazarko, Andrew, Chesmore, Grace E., Coppi, Gabriele, Cothard, Nicholas F.

Source: Applied optics. 60(4):823-837

Availability: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN625751625&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN625751625

Thermal architecture for a cryogenic super-pressure balloon payload: design and development of the Taurus flight cryostat

Authors: Marshall, Heather K., Spyromilio, Jason, Usuda, Tomonori, Tartakovsky, Simon, Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Bihary, Rick, Durkin, Malcolm, Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas J. L. J., Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hartley, John W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William C., Li, Steven, May, Jared L., Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan L., Romualdez, L. Javier, Vissers, Michael R.

Source: Proceedings of SPIE; August 2024, Vol. 13094 Issue: 1 p130944B-130944B-9, 1178506p

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

Authors: Chesmore, Grace E., Harrington, Kathleen, Sierra, Carlos E., Gallardo, Patricio A., Sutariya, Shreya, Alford, Tommy, Adler, Alexandre E., Bhandarkar, Tanay, Coppi, Gabriele, Dachlythra, Nadia

Source: Applied optics. 61(34):10309-10309

Availability: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN630957600&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN630957600

Simons Observatory: HoloSim-ML: machine learning applied to the efficient analysis of radio holography measurements of complex optical systems

Authors: Chesmore, Grace E., Adler, Alexandre E., Cothard, Nicholas F., Dachlythra, Nadia, Gallardo, Patricio A., Gudmundsson, Jon, Johnson, Bradley R., Limon, Michele, McMahon, Jeff, Nati, Federico

Source: Applied optics. 60(29):9029-9029

Availability: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN628073593&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN628073593

Modelling ground pickup for microwave telescopes

Authors: Zmuidzinas, Jonas, Gao, Jian-Rong, Adler, Alexandre E., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Gudmundsson, Jon E.

Source: Proceedings of SPIE; August 2022, Vol. 12190 Issue: 1 p121902M-121902M-10, 12068309p

Instrument overview of Taurus: a balloon-borne CMB and dust polarization experiment

Authors: Marshall, Heather K., Spyromilio, Jason, Usuda, Tomonori, May, Jared L., Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Bihary, Rick, Durkin, Malcolm, Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas J. L. J., Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hartley, John W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William C., Li, Steven, Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan L., Romualdez, L. Javier, Tartakovsky, Simon, Vissers, Michael R.

Source: Proceedings of SPIE; August 2024, Vol. 13094 Issue: 1 p1309432-1309432-15

Modeling sidelobe response for ground-based mm-wavelength telescopes with the geometrical theory of diffraction

Authors: Zmuidzinas, Jonas, Gao, Jian-Rong, Adler, Alexandre E., Gudmundsson, Jon E.

Source: Proceedings of SPIE; December 2020, Vol. 11453 Issue: 1 p114534O-114534O-12, 11338879p