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SUMMARY:The start of the Simons Observatory - Jo Dunkley (Princeton)
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CONTACT:Steven Brereton
DESCRIPTION:The Simons Observatory is a new millimetre-wave observatory in
  Chile that started commissioning late last year. Its largest 6-metre tele
 scope will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over half the sky
  with five times the resolution of the Planck satellite\, and should reach
  ten times the sensitivity. Its smaller telescopes are targeting a deeper 
 region\, seeking a polarized CMB signal imprinted by primordial gravitatio
 nal waves. The large-telescope survey overlaps with the Rubin LSST sky reg
 ion\, and has overlap with DESI and Euclid\, providing a route to mapping 
 the large-scale distribution of dark matter and gas through lensing and Su
 nyaev-Zel’dovich effects. By surveying half the sky every couple of days
 \, we also hope to see new types of transient astronomical events in milli
 metre-wavelengths with SO\, and track the light-curves of thousands of act
 ive galactic nuclei. In this talk I will describe the status of SO and its
  science plans.
LOCATION:Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail)
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