The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low-Frequency Detectors

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2024年11月15日

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Aashrita Mangu,
Benjamin Westbrook,
Shawn Beckman,
Lance Corbett,
Kevin T. Crowley,
Daniel Dutcher,
Bradley R. Johnson,
Adrian T. Lee,
Varun Kabra,
Bhoomija Prasad,
Suzanne T. Staggs,
Aritoki Suzuki,
Yuhan Wang,
Kaiwen Zheng

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The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three small aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large aperture telescope (LAT) will house $\sim$ $\sim$ 60,000 detectors and cover angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees. We present the performance of the dichroic, low-frequency (LF) lenslet-coupled sinuous antenna transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays with bands centered at 27 and 39 GHz. The LF focal plane will primarily characterize Galactic synchrotron emission as a critical part of foreground subtraction from CMB data. We will discuss the design, optimization, and current testing status of these pixels.