The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

Ade, P. A. R.; Aguirre, James; Ahmed, Zeeshan; Aiola, Simone; Ali, Aamir; Alonso, David; Alvarez, Marcelo A.; Arnold, Kam; Ashton, Peter; Austermann, Jason E.; Awan, Humna; Baccigalupi, C.; Baildon, Taylor; Barron, Darcy; Battaglia, Nick; Battye, Richard A.; Baxter, Eric J.; Bazarko, A. O.; Beall, James A.; Bean, Rachel; Beck, D.; Beckman, Shawn; Beringue, Benjamin; Bianchini, F.; Boada, Steven; Boettger, D.; Bond, J. Richard; Borrill, Julian; Brown, Michael L.; Bruno, Sarah Marie; Bryan, Sean; Calabrese, Erminia; Calafut, Victoria; Calisse, P.; Carron, Julien; Challinor, A.; Chesmore, Grace E.; Chinone, Y.; Chluba, Jens; Cho, Hsiao-Mei Sherry; Choi, Steve K.; Coppi, Gabriele; Cothard, Nicholas F.; Coughlin, Kevin; Crichton, Devin; Crowley, Kevin D.; Crowley, Kevin T.; Cukierman, A.; D'Ewart, John M.; Dünner, Rolando; Haan, T. de; Devlin, Mark J.; Dicker, Simon; Didier, Joy; Dobbs, M.; Dober, Bradley; Duell, Cody J.; Duff, Shannon M.; Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J.; Dunkley, Jo; Dusatko, John; Errard, Josquin; Fabbian, Giulio; Feeney, Stephen M.; Ferraro, Simone; Fluxá, Pedro; Freese, Katherine; Frisch, J.; Frolov, Andrei V.; Fuller, George M.; Fuzia, Brittany; Galitzki, Nicholas; Gallardo, Patricio A.; Ghersi, José T. Gálvez; Gao, Jiansong; Gawiser, Eric; Gerbino, M.; Gluscevic, Vera; Goeckner-Wald, N.; Golec, Joseph E.; Gordon, Sam; Gralla, Megan; Green, Daniel; Grigorian, Arpi; Groh, J. C.; Groppi, Chris; Guan, Yilun; Gudmundsson, Jon E.; Han, Dongwon; Hargrave, Peter; Hasegawa, M.; Hasselfield, Matthew; Hattori, M.; Haynes, Victor; Hazumi, M.; He, Yizhou; Healy, Erin; Henderson, Shawn; Hervías-Caimapo, Carlos; Hill, Charles A.; Hill, J. Colin; Hilton, G. C.; Hilton, Matt; Hincks, Adam D.; Hinshaw, G.; Hložek, Renée; Ho, Shirley; Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty; Howe, L.; Huang, Zhiqi; Hubmayr, Johannes; Huffenberger, K. M.; Hughes, John P.; Ijjas, Anna; Ikape, Margaret; Irwin, K. D.; Jaffe, A. H.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Jeong, O.; Kaneko, Daisuke; Karpel, E.; Katayama, N.; Keating, Brian; Kernasovskiy, Sarah S.; Keskitalo, Reijo; Kisner, Theodore; Kiuchi, Kenta; Klein, Jeff; Knowles, Kenda; Koopman, Brian J.; Kosowsky, Arthur; Krachmalnicoff, N.; Kuenstner, Stephen E.; Kuo, Chao‐Lin; Kusaka, A.; Lashner, Jacob; Lee, Adrian V.; Lee, Eunseong; Leon, D.; Leung, Jason S.-Y.; Lewis, Antony; Li, Yaqiong; Li, Zack; Limon, M.; Linder, Eric V.; López-Caraballo, C. H.; Louis, Thibaut; Lowry, Lindsay; Lungu, Marius; Madhavacheril, Mathew S.; Mak, D. S. Y.; Maldonado, Felipe; Mani, Hamdi; Mates, Ben; Matsuda, Frederick; Maurin, L.; Mauskopf, P.; May, Andrew; McCallum, Nialh; McKenney, Chris; McMahon, J. J.; Meerburg, P. Daniel; Meyers, Joel; Miller, Amber; Mirmelstein, Mark; Moodley, Kavilan; Münchmeyer, Moritz; Munson, Charles; Næss, Sigurd; Nati, F.; Navaroli, M.; Newburgh, Laura; Nguyễn, Hồ Nam; Niemack, Michael D.; Nishino, H.; Orlowski-Scherer, John; Page, Lyman A.; Partridge, Bruce; Peloton, J.; Perrotta, F.; Piccirillo, Lucio; Pisano, G.; Poletti, D.; Puddu, Roberto; Puglisi, Giuseppe; Raum, Chris; Reichardt, C. L.; Remazeilles, M.; Rephaeli, Yoel; Riechers, Dominik A.; Rojas, Felipe; Roy, Anirban; Sadeh, Sharon; Sakurai, Y.; Salatino, Maria; Rao, Mayuri Sathyanarayana; Schaan, Emmanuel; Schmittfull, Marcel; Sehgal, Neelima; Seibert, Joseph; Seljak, Uroš; Sherwin, Blake D.; Shimon, Meir; Sierra, Carlos; Sievers, Jonathan; Sikhosana, S. P.; Silva-Feaver, Maximiliano; Simon, Sara M.; Sinclair, Adrian K.; Siritanasak, P.; Smith, Kendrick M.; Smith, Stephen R.; Spergel, David N.; Staggs, Suzanne T.; Stein, George; Stevens, Jason; Stompor, R.; Suzuki, Aritoki; Tajima, O.; Takakura, S.; Teply, Grant; Thomas, Daniel B.; Thorne, B.; Thornton, Robert; Trac, Hy; Tsai, Calvin; Tucker, C.; Ullom, Joel N.; Vagnozzi, Sunny; Engelen, Alexander van; Lanen, Jeff Van; Winkle, Daniel D. Van; Vavagiakis, Eve M.; Vergès, C.; Vissers, Michael; Wagoner, Kasey; Walker, Samantha; Ward, Jon; Westbrook, Benjamin; Whitehorn, N.; Williams, Jason A.; Williams, Joel; Wollack, Edward J.; Xu, Zhilei; Yu, Byeonghee; Yu, Cyndia; Zago, Fernando; Zhang, Hezi; Zhu, Ningfeng

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/056

articleJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsFeb 1, 2019GREEN OA

The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

PAP. A. R. Ade JAJames Aguirre ZAZeeshan Ahmed SASimone Aiola AAAamir Ali

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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…

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Physics
Cosmic microwave background
Planck
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