The Simons Observatory: Beam characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes

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Abstract

We use time-domain simulations of Jupiter observations to test and develop a beam reconstruction pipeline for the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes. The method relies on a map maker that estimates and subtracts correlated atmospheric noise and a beam fitting code designed to compensate for the bias caused by the map maker. We test our reconstruction performance for four different frequency bands against various algorithmic parameters, atmospheric conditions and input beams. We additionally show the reconstruction quality as function of the number of available observations and investigate how different calibration strategies affect the beam uncertainty. For all of the cases considered, we find good agreement between the fitted results and the input beam model within a ~1.5% error for a multipole range l = 30 - 700.

Publication
Astrophysical Journal
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Nadia Dachlythra
Nadia Dachlythra
PhD Student

My research interests include cosmology, beam modelling.

Adriaan Duivenvoorden
Adriaan Duivenvoorden
Postdoc

PhD from Stockholm University in 2019. Now a Flatiron Research Fellow at the CCA.

Jón E. Guðmundsson
Jón E. Guðmundsson
Assistant Professor

Assistant professor at the University of Iceland and senior research scientist at Stockholm University.