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author Bhandarkar, Tanay
Haridas, Saianeesh K.
Iuliano, Jeff
Kofman, Anna
Manduca, Alex
Sarmiento, Karen Perez
Orlowski-Scherer, John
Satterthwaite, Thomas P.
Wang, Yuhan
Ahmed, Zeeshan
Austermann, Jason E.
Bae, Kyuyoung
Coppi, Gabriele
Devlin, Mark J.
Dicker, Simon R
Dow, Peter N.
Duff, Shannon M.
Dutcher, Daniel
Galitzki, Nicholas
Gudmundsson, Jon E.
Henderson, Shawn W.
Hubmayr, Johannes
Johnson, Bradley R.
Koc, Matthew A.
Koopman, Brian J.
Limon, Michele
Link, Michael J
Lucas, Tammy J.
Moore, Jenna E.
Nati, Federico
Niemack, Michael D.
Sierra, Carlos E.
Silva-Feaver, Max
Singh, Robinjeet
Staggs, Suzanne T.
Sonka, Rita F.
Thornton, Robert J.
Tsan, Tran
Van Lanen, Jeff L.
Vavagiakis, Eve M.
Vissers, Michael R
Walters, Liam
Zannoni, Mario
Zheng, Kaiwen
author_facet Bhandarkar, Tanay
Haridas, Saianeesh K.
Iuliano, Jeff
Kofman, Anna
Manduca, Alex
Sarmiento, Karen Perez
Orlowski-Scherer, John
Satterthwaite, Thomas P.
Wang, Yuhan
Ahmed, Zeeshan
Austermann, Jason E.
Bae, Kyuyoung
Coppi, Gabriele
Devlin, Mark J.
Dicker, Simon R
Dow, Peter N.
Duff, Shannon M.
Dutcher, Daniel
Galitzki, Nicholas
Gudmundsson, Jon E.
Henderson, Shawn W.
Hubmayr, Johannes
Johnson, Bradley R.
Koc, Matthew A.
Koopman, Brian J.
Limon, Michele
Link, Michael J
Lucas, Tammy J.
Moore, Jenna E.
Nati, Federico
Niemack, Michael D.
Sierra, Carlos E.
Silva-Feaver, Max
Singh, Robinjeet
Staggs, Suzanne T.
Sonka, Rita F.
Thornton, Robert J.
Tsan, Tran
Van Lanen, Jeff L.
Vavagiakis, Eve M.
Vissers, Michael R
Walters, Liam
Zannoni, Mario
Zheng, Kaiwen
contents The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m large-aperture telescope (LAT), located at an elevation of 5200m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. At the LAT's focal plane, SO will install >62,000 transition-edge sensor detectors across 13 optics tubes (OTs) within the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR), the largest cryogenic camera ever built to observe the CMB. Here we report on the validation of the LATR in the laboratory and the subsequent dark testing and validation within the LAT. We show that the LATR meets cryogenic, optical, and detector specifications required for high-sensitivity measurements of the CMB. At the time of writing, the LATR is installed in the LAT with six OTs (corresponding to >31,000 detectors), and the LAT mirrors and remaining seven OTs are undergoing development.
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spellingShingle Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Bhandarkar, Tanay
Haridas, Saianeesh K.
Iuliano, Jeff
Kofman, Anna
Manduca, Alex
Sarmiento, Karen Perez
Orlowski-Scherer, John
Satterthwaite, Thomas P.
Wang, Yuhan
Ahmed, Zeeshan
Austermann, Jason E.
Bae, Kyuyoung
Coppi, Gabriele
Devlin, Mark J.
Dicker, Simon R
Dow, Peter N.
Duff, Shannon M.
Dutcher, Daniel
Galitzki, Nicholas
Gudmundsson, Jon E.
Henderson, Shawn W.
Hubmayr, Johannes
Johnson, Bradley R.
Koc, Matthew A.
Koopman, Brian J.
Limon, Michele
Link, Michael J
Lucas, Tammy J.
Moore, Jenna E.
Nati, Federico
Niemack, Michael D.
Sierra, Carlos E.
Silva-Feaver, Max
Singh, Robinjeet
Staggs, Suzanne T.
Sonka, Rita F.
Thornton, Robert J.
Tsan, Tran
Van Lanen, Jeff L.
Vavagiakis, Eve M.
Vissers, Michael R
Walters, Liam
Zannoni, Mario
Zheng, Kaiwen
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m large-aperture telescope (LAT), located at an elevation of 5200m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. At the LAT's focal plane, SO will install >62,000 transition-edge sensor detectors across 13 optics tubes (OTs) within the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR), the largest cryogenic camera ever built to observe the CMB. Here we report on the validation of the LATR in the laboratory and the subsequent dark testing and validation within the LAT. We show that the LATR meets cryogenic, optical, and detector specifications required for high-sensitivity measurements of the CMB. At the time of writing, the LATR is installed in the LAT with six OTs (corresponding to >31,000 detectors), and the LAT mirrors and remaining seven OTs are undergoing development.
title Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09241