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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 056 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-103 |
| Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 27-Feb-2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
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- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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The Simons Observatory : Science goals and forecasts. / Ade, Peter; Aguirre, James; Ahmed, Zeeshan; Aiola, Simone; Ali, Aamir; Alonso, David; Alvarez, Marcelo A.; Arnold, Kam; Ashton, Peter; Austermann, Jason; Awan, Humna; Baccigalupi, Carlo; Baildon, Taylor; Barron, Darcy; Battaglia, Nick; Battye, Richard; Baxter, Eric; Bazarko, Andrew; Beall, James A.; Bean, Rachel; Beck, Dominic; Beckman, Shawn; Beringue, Benjamin; Bianchini, Federico; Boada, Steven; Boettger, David; Bond, J. Richard; Borrill, Julian; Brown, Michael L.; Bruno, Sarah Marie; Bryan, Sean; Calabrese, Erminia; Calafut, Victoria; Calisse, Paolo; Carron, Julien; Challinor, Anthony; Chesmore, Grace; Chinone, Yuji; Chluba, Jens; Cho, Hsiao-Mei Sherry; Choi, Steve; Coppi, Gabriele; Cothard, Nicholas F.; Coughlin, Kevin; Crichton, Devin; Crowley, Kevin D.; Crowley, Kevin T.; Cukierman, Ari; D'Ewart, John M.; Dünner, Rolando; de Haan, Tijmen; Devlin, Mark; Dicker, Simon; Didier, Joy; Dobbs, Matt; Dober, Bradley; Duell, Cody J.; Duff, Shannon; Duivenvoorden, Adri; Dunkley, Jo; Dusatko, John; Errard, Josquin; Fabbian, Giulio; Feeney, Stephen; Ferraro, Simone; Fluxà, Pedro; Freese, Katherine; Frisch, Josef C.; Frolov, Andrei; Fuller, George; Fuzia, Brittany; Galitzki, Nicholas; Gallardo, Patricio A.; Tomas Galvez Ghersi, Jose; Gao, Jiansong; Gawiser, Eric; Gerbino, Martina; Gluscevic, Vera; Goeckner-Wald, Neil; Golec, Joseph; Gordon, Sam; Gralla, Megan; Green, Daniel; Grigorian, Arpi; Groh, John; Groppi, Chris; Guan, Yilun; Gudmundsson, Jon E.; Han, Dongwon; Hargrave, Peter; Hasegawa, Masaya; Hasselfield, Matthew; Hattori, Makoto; Haynes, Victor; Hazumi, Masashi; He, Yizhou; Healy, Erin; Henderson, Shawn W.; Hervias-Caimapo, Carlos; Hill, Charles A.; Hill, J. Colin; Hilton, Gene; Hilton, Matt; Hincks, Adam D.; Hinshaw, Gary; Hložek, Renée; Ho, Shirley; Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty; Howe, Logan; Huang, Zhiqi; Hubmayr, Johannes; Huffenberger, Kevin; Hughes, John P.; Ijjas, Anna; Ikape, Margaret; Irwin, Kent; Jaffe, Andrew H.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Jeong, Oliver; Kaneko, Daisuke; Karpel, Ethan D.; Katayama, Nobuhiko; Keating, Brian; Kernasovskiy, Sarah S.; Keskitalo, Reijo; Kisner, Theodore; Kiuchi, Kenji; Klein, Jeff; Knowles, Kenda; Koopman, Brian; Kosowsky, Arthur; Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta; Kuenstner, Stephen E.; Kuo, Chao-Lin; Kusaka, Akito; Lashner, Jacob; Lee, Adrian; Lee, Eunseong; Leon, David; Leung, Jason S. -Y.; Lewis, Antony; Li, Yaqiong; Li, Zack; Limon, Michele; Linder, Eric; Lopez-Caraballo, Carlos; Louis, Thibaut; Lowry, Lindsay; Lungu, Marius; Madhavacheril, Mathew; Mak, Daisy; Maldonado, Felipe; Mani, Hamdi; Mates, Ben; Matsuda, Frederick; Maurin, Loïc; Mauskopf, Phil; May, Andrew; McCallum, Nialh; McKenney, Chris; McMahon, Jeff; Meerburg, P. Daniel; Meyers, Joel; Miller, Amber; Mirmelstein, Mark; Moodley, Kavilan; Munchmeyer, Moritz; Munson, Charles; Naess, Sigurd; Nati, Federico; Navaroli, Martin; Newburgh, Laura; Nguyen, Ho Nam; Niemack, Michael; Nishino, Haruki; Orlowski-Scherer, John; Page, Lyman; Partridge, Bruce; Peloton, Julien; Perrotta, Francesca; Piccirillo, Lucio; Pisano, Giampaolo; Poletti, Davide; Puddu, Roberto; Puglisi, Giuseppe; Raum, Chris; Reichardt, Christian L.; Remazeilles, Mathieu; Rephaeli, Yoel; Riechers, Dominik; Rojas, Felipe; Roy, Anirban; Sadeh, Sharon; Sakurai, Yuki; Salatino, Maria; Sathyanarayana Rao, Mayuri; Schaan, Emmanuel; Schmittfull, Marcel; Sehgal, Neelima; Seibert, Joseph; Seljak, Uros; Sherwin, Blake; Shimon, Meir; Sierra, Carlos; Sievers, Jonathan; Sikhosana, Precious; Silva-Feaver, Maximiliano; Simon, Sara M.; Sinclair, Adrian; Siritanasak, Praween; Smith, Kendrick; Smith, Stephen R.; Spergel, David; Staggs, Suzanne T.; Stein, George; Stevens, Jason R.; Stompor, Radek; Suzuki, Aritoki; Tajima, Osamu; Takakura, Satoru; Teply, Grant; Thomas, Daniel B.; Thorne, Ben; Thornton, Robert; Trac, Hy; Tsai, Calvin; Tucker, Carole; Ullom, Joel; Vagnozzi, Sunny; van Engelen, Alexander; Van Lanen, Jeff; Van Winkle, Daniel D.; Vavagiakis, Eve M.; Vergès, Clara; Vissers, Michael; Wagoner, Kasey; Walker, Samantha; Ward, Jon; Westbrook, Ben; Whitehorn, Nathan; Williams, Jason; Williams, Joel; Wollack, Edward J.; Xu, Zhilei; Yu, Byeonghee; Yu, Cyndia; Zago, Fernando; Zhang, Hezi; Zhu, Ningfeng; Collaboration, Simons Observatory.
In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2019, No. 2, 056, 2020, p. 1-103.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - The Simons Observatory
T2 - Science goals and forecasts
AU - Ade, Peter
AU - Aguirre, James
AU - Ahmed, Zeeshan
AU - Aiola, Simone
AU - Ali, Aamir
AU - Alonso, David
AU - Alvarez, Marcelo A.
AU - Arnold, Kam
AU - Ashton, Peter
AU - Austermann, Jason
AU - Awan, Humna
AU - Baccigalupi, Carlo
AU - Baildon, Taylor
AU - Barron, Darcy
AU - Battaglia, Nick
AU - Battye, Richard
AU - Baxter, Eric
AU - Bazarko, Andrew
AU - Beall, James A.
AU - Bean, Rachel
AU - Beck, Dominic
AU - Beckman, Shawn
AU - Beringue, Benjamin
AU - Bianchini, Federico
AU - Boada, Steven
AU - Boettger, David
AU - Bond, J. Richard
AU - Borrill, Julian
AU - Brown, Michael L.
AU - Bruno, Sarah Marie
AU - Bryan, Sean
AU - Calabrese, Erminia
AU - Calafut, Victoria
AU - Calisse, Paolo
AU - Carron, Julien
AU - Challinor, Anthony
AU - Chesmore, Grace
AU - Chinone, Yuji
AU - Chluba, Jens
AU - Cho, Hsiao-Mei Sherry
AU - Choi, Steve
AU - Coppi, Gabriele
AU - Cothard, Nicholas F.
AU - Coughlin, Kevin
AU - Crichton, Devin
AU - Crowley, Kevin D.
AU - Crowley, Kevin T.
AU - Cukierman, Ari
AU - D'Ewart, John M.
AU - Dünner, Rolando
AU - de Haan, Tijmen
AU - Devlin, Mark
AU - Dicker, Simon
AU - Didier, Joy
AU - Dobbs, Matt
AU - Dober, Bradley
AU - Duell, Cody J.
AU - Duff, Shannon
AU - Duivenvoorden, Adri
AU - Dunkley, Jo
AU - Dusatko, John
AU - Errard, Josquin
AU - Fabbian, Giulio
AU - Feeney, Stephen
AU - Ferraro, Simone
AU - Fluxà, Pedro
AU - Freese, Katherine
AU - Frisch, Josef C.
AU - Frolov, Andrei
AU - Fuller, George
AU - Fuzia, Brittany
AU - Galitzki, Nicholas
AU - Gallardo, Patricio A.
AU - Tomas Galvez Ghersi, Jose
AU - Gao, Jiansong
AU - Gawiser, Eric
AU - Gerbino, Martina
AU - Gluscevic, Vera
AU - Goeckner-Wald, Neil
AU - Golec, Joseph
AU - Gordon, Sam
AU - Gralla, Megan
AU - Green, Daniel
AU - Grigorian, Arpi
AU - Groh, John
AU - Groppi, Chris
AU - Guan, Yilun
AU - Gudmundsson, Jon E.
AU - Han, Dongwon
AU - Hargrave, Peter
AU - Hasegawa, Masaya
AU - Hasselfield, Matthew
AU - Hattori, Makoto
AU - Haynes, Victor
AU - Hazumi, Masashi
AU - He, Yizhou
AU - Healy, Erin
AU - Henderson, Shawn W.
AU - Hervias-Caimapo, Carlos
AU - Hill, Charles A.
AU - Hill, J. Colin
AU - Hilton, Gene
AU - Hilton, Matt
AU - Hincks, Adam D.
AU - Hinshaw, Gary
AU - Hložek, Renée
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty
AU - Howe, Logan
AU - Huang, Zhiqi
AU - Hubmayr, Johannes
AU - Huffenberger, Kevin
AU - Hughes, John P.
AU - Ijjas, Anna
AU - Ikape, Margaret
AU - Irwin, Kent
AU - Jaffe, Andrew H.
AU - Jain, Bhuvnesh
AU - Jeong, Oliver
AU - Kaneko, Daisuke
AU - Karpel, Ethan D.
AU - Katayama, Nobuhiko
AU - Keating, Brian
AU - Kernasovskiy, Sarah S.
AU - Keskitalo, Reijo
AU - Kisner, Theodore
AU - Kiuchi, Kenji
AU - Klein, Jeff
AU - Knowles, Kenda
AU - Koopman, Brian
AU - Kosowsky, Arthur
AU - Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta
AU - Kuenstner, Stephen E.
AU - Kuo, Chao-Lin
AU - Kusaka, Akito
AU - Lashner, Jacob
AU - Lee, Adrian
AU - Lee, Eunseong
AU - Leon, David
AU - Leung, Jason S. -Y.
AU - Lewis, Antony
AU - Li, Yaqiong
AU - Li, Zack
AU - Limon, Michele
AU - Linder, Eric
AU - Lopez-Caraballo, Carlos
AU - Louis, Thibaut
AU - Lowry, Lindsay
AU - Lungu, Marius
AU - Madhavacheril, Mathew
AU - Mak, Daisy
AU - Maldonado, Felipe
AU - Mani, Hamdi
AU - Mates, Ben
AU - Matsuda, Frederick
AU - Maurin, Loïc
AU - Mauskopf, Phil
AU - May, Andrew
AU - McCallum, Nialh
AU - McKenney, Chris
AU - McMahon, Jeff
AU - Meerburg, P. Daniel
AU - Meyers, Joel
AU - Miller, Amber
AU - Mirmelstein, Mark
AU - Moodley, Kavilan
AU - Munchmeyer, Moritz
AU - Munson, Charles
AU - Naess, Sigurd
AU - Nati, Federico
AU - Navaroli, Martin
AU - Newburgh, Laura
AU - Nguyen, Ho Nam
AU - Niemack, Michael
AU - Nishino, Haruki
AU - Orlowski-Scherer, John
AU - Page, Lyman
AU - Partridge, Bruce
AU - Peloton, Julien
AU - Perrotta, Francesca
AU - Piccirillo, Lucio
AU - Pisano, Giampaolo
AU - Poletti, Davide
AU - Puddu, Roberto
AU - Puglisi, Giuseppe
AU - Raum, Chris
AU - Reichardt, Christian L.
AU - Remazeilles, Mathieu
AU - Rephaeli, Yoel
AU - Riechers, Dominik
AU - Rojas, Felipe
AU - Roy, Anirban
AU - Sadeh, Sharon
AU - Sakurai, Yuki
AU - Salatino, Maria
AU - Sathyanarayana Rao, Mayuri
AU - Schaan, Emmanuel
AU - Schmittfull, Marcel
AU - Sehgal, Neelima
AU - Seibert, Joseph
AU - Seljak, Uros
AU - Sherwin, Blake
AU - Shimon, Meir
AU - Sierra, Carlos
AU - Sievers, Jonathan
AU - Sikhosana, Precious
AU - Silva-Feaver, Maximiliano
AU - Simon, Sara M.
AU - Sinclair, Adrian
AU - Siritanasak, Praween
AU - Smith, Kendrick
AU - Smith, Stephen R.
AU - Spergel, David
AU - Staggs, Suzanne T.
AU - Stein, George
AU - Stevens, Jason R.
AU - Stompor, Radek
AU - Suzuki, Aritoki
AU - Tajima, Osamu
AU - Takakura, Satoru
AU - Teply, Grant
AU - Thomas, Daniel B.
AU - Thorne, Ben
AU - Thornton, Robert
AU - Trac, Hy
AU - Tsai, Calvin
AU - Tucker, Carole
AU - Ullom, Joel
AU - Vagnozzi, Sunny
AU - van Engelen, Alexander
AU - Van Lanen, Jeff
AU - Van Winkle, Daniel D.
AU - Vavagiakis, Eve M.
AU - Vergès, Clara
AU - Vissers, Michael
AU - Wagoner, Kasey
AU - Walker, Samantha
AU - Ward, Jon
AU - Westbrook, Ben
AU - Whitehorn, Nathan
AU - Williams, Jason
AU - Williams, Joel
AU - Wollack, Edward J.
AU - Xu, Zhilei
AU - Yu, Byeonghee
AU - Yu, Cyndia
AU - Zago, Fernando
AU - Zhang, Hezi
AU - Zhu, Ningfeng
AU - Collaboration, Simons Observatory
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/056
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/056
M3 - Article
VL - 2019
SP - 1
EP - 103
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
SN - 1475-7516
IS - 2
M1 - 056
ER -