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The Simons Observatory will be 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[1] 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 several new telescopes and new cameras with state of the art detector arrays. This has been made possible by a combined $40.1 million grant from the Simons Foundation and a number of participating universities.[2][3][4]


The site of the future Simons Observatory, with the Simons Array, Atacama Cosmology Telescope and POLARBEAR.


The observatory is currently in its definition phase. It is envisaged that one of its telescopes would be a precursor for an element of the proposed CMB-S4 array.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Suzuki, A; et al. "The P OLARBEAR -2 and the Simons Array Experiments" (PDF). Arxiv.org. Retrieved 26 February 2017. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first1= (help)
  2. ^ Scientific American. "Hunt for Big Bang Gravitational Waves Gets $40-Million Boost". scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  3. ^ Photonics Media. "Simons Observatory Receives $40M in Funding to Advance Telescopes, Detectors". photonics.com.
  4. ^ Space Daily. "Simons observatory will investigate the early universe". spacedaily.com. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  5. ^ Inside Science. "Looking Deeper Into Our Cosmic Past Scientists reveal plans for future experiments to study the faint remnants left behind by the Big Bang". insidescience.org. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  6. ^ Symmetry. "2016 year in particle physics". symmetrymagazine.org. Retrieved 5 March 2017.

The Simons Observatory homepage.

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