The 90 and 150 GHz universal focal-plane modules for the Simons Observatory

• Main Authors: McCarrick, Heather, Arnold, Kam, Atkins, Zachary, Austermann, Jason, Bhandarkar, Tanay, Choi, Steve K, Duell, Cody J, Duff, Shannon M, Dutcher, Daniel, Galitzk, Nicholas, Healy, Erin, Huber, Zachary B, Hubmayr, Johannes, Johnson, Bradley R, Niemack, Michael D, Seibert, Joseph, Silva-Feaver, Maximiliano, Sonka, Rita F, Staggs, Suzanne T, Vavagiakis, Eve M, Wang, Yuhan, Xu, Zhilei, Zheng, Kaiwen, Zhu, Ningfeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 02.12.2021
• Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of telescopes located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background. There are a host of cosmological and astrophysical questions that SO is forecasted to address. The universal focal-plane modules (UFMs...