volume 2019 issue 02 pages 56

The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

Peter Ade 1
James Aguirre 2
Zeeshan Ahmed 3, 4
Simone Aiola 5, 6
Aamir Ali 7
David Alonso 1, 8
Marcelo A. Alvarez 7, 9
Kam Arnold 10
Peter Ashton 7, 11, 12
Jason Austermann 13
Humna Awan 14
Carlo Baccigalupi 15, 16
Taylor Baildon 17
Darcy Barron 7, 18
Nick Battaglia 6, 19
Richard Battye 20
Eric Baxter 2
Andrew Bazarko 5
James A. Beall 13
Rachel Bean 19
Dominic Beck 21
Shawn Beckman 7
Benjamin Beringue 22
Federico Bianchini 23
Steven Boada 14
David Boettger 24
J. Richard Bond 25
Julian Borrill 7, 9
Michael L. Brown 20
Sarah Marie Bruno 5
Sean Bryan 26
Erminia Calabrese 1
Victoria Calafut 19
Paolo Calisse 10, 24
Julien Carron 27
Anthony Challinor 22, 28, 29
Grace Chesmore 17
Yuji Chinone 7, 12
Jens Chluba 20
Hsiao Mei Sherry Cho 3, 4
Steve Choi 5
Gabriele Coppi 2
Nicholas F. Cothard 30
Kevin Coughlin 17
Devin Crichton 31
Kevin D. Crowley 10
Kevin T Crowley 5
Ari Cukierman 3, 7, 32
John M Dewart 4
Rolando Dünner 24
Tijmen de Haan 7, 11
Mark Devlin 2
Simon Dicker 2
Joy Didier 33
Matt Dobbs 34
Bradley Dober 13
Cody J. Duell 35
Shannon Duff 13
Adri Duivenvoorden 36
Jo Dunkley 5, 37
John Dusatko 4
Josquin Errard 21
Giulio Fabbian 38
Stephen Feeney 6
Simone Ferraro 39
Pedro Fluxà 24
Katherine Freese 17, 36
Josef C. Frisch 3
Andrei Frolov 40
George Fuller 10
Brittany Fuzia 41
Nicholas Galitzki 10
Patricio A. Gallardo 35
Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi 40
Jiansong Gao 13
Eric Gawiser 14
Martina Gerbino 36
Vera Gluscevic 5, 42, 43
Neil Goeckner-Wald 7
Joseph Golec 17
Sam Gordon 44
Megan Gralla 45
Daniel Green 10
Arpi Grigorian 13
John Groh 7
Chris Groppi 44
Yilun Guan 46
Jon E. Gudmundsson 36
Dongwon Han 47
Peter Hargrave 1
Masaya Hasegawa 48
Matthew Hasselfield 49, 50
Makoto Hattori 51
Victor Haynes 20
Masashi Hazumi 12, 48
Yizhou He 52
Erin Healy 5
Shawn W. Henderson 3, 4
Carlos Hervias Caimapo 20
Charles A. Hill 7, 11
J. Colin Hill 6, 42
GENE HILTON 13
Matt Hilton 31
Adam D. Hincks 25, 53
Gary Hinshaw 54
Renée Hložek 55, 56
Shirley Ho 11
Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho 5
Logan Howe 10
Zhiqi Huang 57
Johannes Hubmayr 13
Kevin Huffenberger 41
John P. Hughes 14
Anna Ijjas 5
Margaret Ikape 55, 56
KENT IRWIN 3, 4, 32
ANDREW H. JAFFE 58
Bhuvnesh Jain 2
Oliver Jeong 7
Daisuke Kaneko 12
Ethan D Karpel 3, 32
Nobuhiko Katayama 12
Brian Keating 10
Sarah S Kernasovskiy 3, 32
Reijo Keskitalo 7, 9
Theodore Kisner 7, 9
Kenji KIUCHI 59
Jeff Klein 2
Kenda Knowles 31
Brian Koopman 35
Arthur Kosowsky 46
Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff 15
Stephen E Kuenstner 3, 32
Chao-lin Kuo 3, 4, 32
Akito Kusaka 11, 59
Jacob Lashner 33
Adrian Lee 7, 11
Eunseong Lee 20
David Leon 10
Jason S.-Y. Leung 25, 55, 56
Antony Lewis 27
Zack Li 37
Michele Limon 2
Eric Linder 7, 11
Carlos Lopez Caraballo 24
Thibaut Louis 60
Lindsay Lowry 10
Marius Lungu 5
Mathew Madhavacheril 37
Daisy Mak 58
Felipe Maldonado 41
Hamdi Mani 44
Ben Mates 13
Frederick Matsuda 12
Loïc Maurin 24
Phil Mauskopf 44
Andrew May 20
Nialh Mccallum 20
Chris Mckenney 13
Jeff McMahon 17
P. Daniel Meerburg 22, 28, 29, 61, 62
Joel Meyers 25, 63
Amber Miller 33
Mark Mirmelstein 27
Kavilan Moodley 31
Moritz Munchmeyer 64
Charles Munson 17
Sigurd Naess 6
Federico Nati 2
Martin Navaroli 10
Laura Newburgh 65
Ho Nam Nguyen 47
Michael Niemack 35
Haruki Nishino 48
John Orlowski Scherer 2
Lyman Page 5
Bruce Partridge 66
Julien Peloton 27, 60
Francesca Perrotta 15
Lucio Piccirillo 20
Giampaolo Pisano 1
Davide Poletti 15
Roberto Puddu 24
Giuseppe Puglisi 3, 32
Chris Raum 7
Christian L. Reichardt 23
Mathieu Remazeilles 20
Yoel Rephaeli 67
Dominik Riechers 19
Felipe Rojas 24
Anirban Roy 15
Sharon Sadeh 67
Yuki Sakurai 12
Maria Salatino 21
Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao 7, 11
Emmanuel Schaan 11
Marcel Schmittfull 42
Neelima Sehgal 47
Joseph Seibert 10
Uros Seljak 7, 11
Blake Sherwin 22, 28
Shimon Meir 67
Carlos Sierra 17
Jonathan Sievers 31
Precious Sikhosana 31
Maximiliano Silva Feaver 10
Sara M. Simon 17
Adrian Sinclair 44
Praween Siritanasak 10
Kendrick Smith 64
Stephen R. Smith 4
David Spergel 6, 37
Suzanne T. Staggs 5
George Stein 25, 55
Jason R. Stevens 35
Radek Stompor 21
Aritoki Suzuki 11
Osamu Tajima 68
Satoru Takakura 12
Grant Teply 10
Daniel B. Thomas 20
Ben Thorne 8, 37
Robert Thornton 69
Hy Trac 52
Calvin Tsai 10
Carole Tucker 1
Joel Ullom 13
Sunny Vagnozzi 36
Alexander Van Engelen 25
Jeff Van Lanen 13
Daniel D Van Winkle 4
Eve M. Vavagiakis 35
Clara Vergès 21
Michael Vissers 13
Kasey Wagoner 5
Samantha Walker 13
Jon Ward 2
Ben Westbrook 7
Nathan Whitehorn 70
Jason Williams 33
Joel Williams 20
Edward J. Wollack 71
Zhilei Xu 2
Byeonghee Yu 7
Cyndia Yu 3, 32
Fernando Zago 46
Hezi Zhang 46
Ningfeng Zhu 2
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NIST Quantum Sensors Group, 325 Broadway Mailcode 687.08, Boulder, CO 80305, U.S.A.
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Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, U.K.
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Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, U.K.
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Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Dr, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College,Haverford, PA, U.S.A. 19041
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Department of Physics and Engineering, 720 S. Church St., West Chester, PA 19383
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2019-02-27
scimago Q2
wos Q1
SJR0.795
CiteScore9.1
Impact factor5.9
ISSN14757516, 14757508
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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.
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author = {Peter Ade and James Aguirre and Zeeshan Ahmed and Simone Aiola and Aamir Ali and David Alonso and Marcelo A. Alvarez and Kam Arnold and Peter Ashton and Jason Austermann and Humna Awan and Carlo Baccigalupi and Taylor Baildon and Darcy Barron and Nick Battaglia and Richard Battye and Eric Baxter and Andrew Bazarko and James A. Beall and Rachel Bean and Dominic Beck and Shawn Beckman and Benjamin Beringue and Federico Bianchini and Steven Boada and David Boettger and J. Richard Bond and Julian Borrill and Michael L. Brown and Sarah Marie Bruno and Sean Bryan and Erminia Calabrese and Victoria Calafut and Paolo Calisse and Julien Carron and Anthony Challinor and Grace Chesmore and Yuji Chinone and Jens Chluba and Hsiao Mei Sherry Cho and Steve Choi and Gabriele Coppi and Nicholas F. Cothard and Kevin Coughlin and Devin Crichton and Kevin D. Crowley and Kevin T Crowley and Ari Cukierman and John M Dewart and Rolando Dünner and others},
title = {The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
year = {2019},
volume = {2019},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
month = {feb},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/056},
number = {02},
pages = {56},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/056}
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Ade, Peter, et al. “The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2019, no. 02, Feb. 2019, p. 56. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/056.