@inproceedings{d375a4b332ce4266a498a2c49c119f8c,
title = "Studies of Systematic uncertainties in the Simons Observatory: Optical effects and sensitivity considerations",
abstract = "The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new experiment that aims to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. SO will measure the polarized sky over a large range of microwave frequencies and angular scales using a combination of small (∼0.5 m) and large (∼6 m) aperture telescopes and will be located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This work is part of a series of papers studying calibration, sensitivity, and systematic errors for SO. In this paper, we discuss current efforts to model optical systematic effects, how these have been used to guide the design of the SO instrument, and how these studies can be used to inform instrument design of future experiments like CMB-S4. While optical systematics studies are underway for both the small aperture and large aperture telescopes, we limit the focus of this paper to the more mature large aperture telescope design for which our studies include: pointing errors, optical distortions, beam ellipticity, cross-polar response, instrumental polarization rotation and various forms of sidelobe pickup.",
keywords = "Beam ellipticity, CMB, Simons Observatory, cross-polarization, instrumental polarization, optics, pointing, sidelobes, sub-mm astronomy, systematic effects",
author = "Gallardo, {Patricio A.} and Jon Gudmundsson and Koopman, {Brian J.} and Matsuda, {Frederick T.} and Simon, {Sara M.} and Aamir Ali and Sean Bryan and Yuji Chinone and Gabriele Coppi and Nicholas Cothard and Devlin, {Mark J.} and Simon Dicker and Giulio Fabbian and Nicholas Galitzki and Hill, {Charles A.} and Brian Keating and Akito Kusaka and Jacob Lashner and Lee, {Adrian T.} and Michele Limon and Philip Mauskopf and Jeff McMahon and Federico Nati and Niemack, {Michael D.} and Orlowski-Scherer, {John L.} and Parshley, {Stephen C.} and Giuseppe Puglisi and Reichardt, {Christian L.} and Maria Salatino and Suzanne Staggs and Aritoki Suzuki and Vavagiakis, {Eve M.} and Wollack, {Edward J.} and Zhilei Xu and Ningfeng Zhu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 SPIE.; Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2018 ; Conference date: 12-06-2018 Through 15-06-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1117/12.2312971",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781510619692",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Jonas Zmuidzinas and Jian-Rong Gao",
booktitle = "Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX",
}