Speaker
Erik Rosenberg
(University of Manchester)
Description
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background survey experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO consists of multiple small-aperture telescopes (SATs) carrying out a focused small-area survey, as well as a large-aperture telescope (LAT) conducting a wide-field, high-resolution survey. The SATs are specifically designed to target primordial B-mode polarization sourced by tensor perturbations in the early Universe. The SO mid-frequency SATs saw first light in late 2023, and have since been conducting initial science observations. I will present the current status of and early data from the SATs and the SAT data processing pipeline.