Simons Observatory
The Simons Observatory is located in the high Atacama Desert in Northern Chile inside the Chajnator Science Preserve, at an altitude of 5,200 meters (17,000 ft). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Simons Array are currently making observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Their goals are to study how the universe began, what it is made of, and how it evolved to its current state. The Simons Observatory will add to these with 4 new telescopes featuring state of the art cryogenic detector arrays. This has been made possible by grants from the Simons Foundation and the Heising Simons Foundation. The project has over 260 collaborators at over 30 institutions around the world.
www.SimonsObservatory.org
Simons Observatory Profiles: Gary Sanders, Executive Project Manager
Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope Platforms shipped from Estonia to Germany
The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver at the University of Pennsylvania Update
SO Update with Nicholas Galitzki from the UC San Diego High Bay Lab
SO Update with Maximiliano Silva-feaver from UC San Diego: The Pixel Test Box first run
SAT-1 Reassembly, December 2019
Natalie Roe, Physics Division Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Zeeshan Ahmed, Project Scientist, SLAC National Laboratory
Simons Observatory Collaborator Profile: Andrew Bazarko
Professor Mark Devlin, U Penn
The Simons Observatory Explained
Small Aperture Telescope receiver 1 BlueFors dilution refrigerator installation & operation
Tamar Ervin, Undergrad Summer Research Assistant from UCLA
Darcy Barron, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Maria Salatino, PhD. Stanford Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Professor Arthur Kosowsky, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh. Science Board
Suzanne T. Staggs, Henry DeWolf Smyth Professsor of Physics, Princeton University.
Aashrita Mangu, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Physics
Arrival of SAT1 Cryostat at UCSD
Site of Simons Observatory and Simons Array, Cerro Toco Chile
David Spergel, Ph.D. Dir. Cntr for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Perspectives on The History & Current State of CMB Cosmology
Katie Harrington, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan, McMahon Cosmology Lab
Sara Simon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. Of Michigan
SAT Cover Pressure Test
Jacob Spisak, UCSD Cosmology Lab
Nicholas Galitzki Profile
MaxSilva-Feaver
Associate Professor of Physics, Jeff McMahon U of M, Simons Observatory Technical Committee