The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by a grant from the Simons Foundation (Award #457687, B.K.). DA aknowledges support from the Beecroft trust and from STFC through an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, grant reference ST/P004474/1. CB, NK, FP, DP acknowledge support from the COSMOS Network (www.cosmosnet.it) from the Italian Space Agency (ASI), from the RADIOFOREGROUNDS project, funded by the European Commission's H2020 Research Infrastructures under the Grant Agreement 687312, and from the INDARK initiative from the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). DB thanks support from grant ALMA-CONICYT 31140004. EC is supported by a STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship ST/M004856/2. AC acknowledges support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant number ST/N000927/1). JC is supported by the Royal Society as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. DC acknowledges the financial assistance of the South African SKA Project (SKA SA). Canadian co-authors acknowledge support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. JE and RSt acknowledge support from French National Research Agency (ANR) through project BxB no. ANR-17-CE31-0022. GF acknowledges the support of the CNES postdoctoral fellowship. AD, KF, MG, JEG, and SV acknowledge support by the Vetenskapsradet (Swedish Research Council) through contract No. 638-2013-8993 and the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics at Stockholm University. Further we acknowledge support from DoE grant DE-SC007859 and the LCTP at the University of Michigan. VG gratefully acknowledges the support of the Eric Schmidt Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. JCH is supported by the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study. MHi acknowledges support from the NRF and SKA-SA. The Dunlap Institute is funded through an endowment established by the David Dunlap family and the University of Toronto. The authors at the University of Toronto acknowledge that the land on which the University of Toronto is built is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation. They are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory. KH acknowledges support from NASA grant ATP-NNX17AF87G. We acknowledge support from the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16K21744, JP17H06134, and JP17K14272. AK and KK acknowledges the support by JSPS Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER). CL, RP and RD thanks CONICYT for grants Anillo ACT-1417 and QUIMAL-160009. NK acknowledges that this work was supported by MEXT KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP17H01125, JSPS Core-to-Core Program and World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan. AL, JC, JP and MM acknowledge support from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. [616170]. FM acknowledges the support of the JSPS fellowship (Grant number JP17F17025). LM thanks support from CONICYT, FONDECYT 3170846. PDM acknowledges support from the Senior Kavli Institute Fellowships at the University of Cambridge and from the Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO) VIDI grant (dossier 639.042.730). MDN acknowledges support from NSF grants AST-1454881 and AST-1517049. FB and CR acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council through FT150100074 and the University of Melbourne. MR was supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant CMBSPEC (No. 725456).MS acknowledges support from the Jeff Bezos Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. NS acknowledges support from NSF grant number 1513618. BDS acknowledges support from an Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Grant and an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship. ST acknowledges the support of the JSPS fellowship (Grant number JP18J02133). In Japan, this work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H06134. BT acknowledges the support of an STFC studentship. AvE was supported by the Beatrice and Vincent Tremaine Fellowship at CITA. Some of the results in this paper have been derived using the HEALPix [124] package. We thank members of the CMB-S4 collaboration for useful discussions and interactions that have helped inform the SO design.