The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

arXiv:2609.26938 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/simonsobs/sat-mfcmg-instrument-model

Terminology

• Calibration — 65× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Simons Observatory — 20× in this paper
• Aperture — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 3× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Aperture Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Nadia — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• Inflation: Theory and Observations
• Fabry-P'{e}rot open resonant cavities for measuring the dielectric parameters of mm-wave optical materials
• The 90 and 150 GHz universal focal-plane modules for the Simons Observatory
• In-Band Scattering and Absorption of Infrared Blocking Foam Filters for Millimeter-wave Cameras
• The Simons Observatory: Rotation Performance of Cryogenic Half-Wave Plate Polarization Modulators

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