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A new-generation cosmic microwave background observatory located in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Funded by the Simons Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation, the observatory will consist of three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, observing between 10 percent and 40 percent of the sky at multiple frequencies. The high-fidelity SO data will be a unique window to our universe, allowing scientists to tackle questions on the primordial universe, neutrino physics, cosmological constant and dark energy, as well as galaxy evolution.
The Simons Observatory collaboration consists of approximately 200 scientists from more than 40 institutions around the world. This collaboration is the first attempt at merging two cosmic microwave background (CMB) teams, from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Polar Bear/Simons Array experiments, now working together toward a common scientific goal.
arXiv:1907.08284, 2019
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, et al.
arXiv:1906.10134, 2019
Neelima Sehgal, et al.
ArXiv:1808.07445, August 22, 2018
Simons Observatory Collaboration
Data and Pipeline Project Leader, Center for Computational Astrophysics
Director, Simons Observatory
Co-Director, Simons Observatory
Co-Director, Simons Observatory
January 27, 2021
5–6:15 p.m. ET
Speaker
Brian Keating
