The Simons Observatory: Design and Initial Performance of the Detector Readout System for the Large-Aperture Telescope

arXiv:2609.39100 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/slaclab/pysmurf

Terminology

• Aperture — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Comtel C07 Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Frequency Dependence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Rear Transition Module — 1× in this paper
• Small Computer System Interface — 1× in this paper
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
• The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

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