The Simons Observatory: The Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)
Zhilei Xu, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade, J. A. Beall, Tanay Bhandarkar, J. Richard Bond, Grace E. Chesmore, Yuji Chinone, Steve K. Choi, Jake A. Connors, Gabriele Coppi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin D. Crowley, Mark Devlin, Simon Dicker, Bradley Dober, Shannon M. Duff, Nicholas Galitzki, Patricio A. Gallardo, Joseph E. Golec, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Kathleen Harrington, Carlos Hervias-Caimapo, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Zachary B. Huber, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Iuliano, Daisuke Kaneko, Anna M. Kofman, Brian J. Koopman, Jack Lashner, Michele Limon, Michael J. Link, Tammy J. Lucas, Frederick Matsuda, Heather McCarrick, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Lucio Piccirillo, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Emmanuel Schaan, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Rita Sonka, Shreya Sutariya, Osamu Tajima, Grant P. Teply, Tomoki Terasaki, Robert Thornton, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Michael R. Vissers, Samantha Walker, Zachary Whipps, Edward J. Wollack, Mario Zannoni, Ningfeng Zhu, Andrea Zonca
Abstract
Abstract The Simons Observatory is a Cosmic Microwave Background experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30 to 290 GHz. The Observatory—at ∼5200 m altitude—comprises three Small Aperture Telescopes and one Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) at the Atacama Desert, Chile. This research note describes the design and current status of the LAT along with its future timeline.