The 10 meter South Pole telescope
- Carlstrom, J. E.
- Ade, Peter A. R.
- Aird, K. A.
- Benson, B. A.
- Bleem, L. E.
- Busetti, S.
- Chang, C. L.
- Chauvin, E.
- Cho, H.-M.
- Crawford, T. M.
- Crites, A. T.
- Dobbs, M. A.
- Halverson, N. W.
- Heimsath, S.
- Holzapfel, W. L.
- Hrubes, J. D.
- Joy, M.
- Keisler, R.
- Lanting, T. M.
- Lee, A. T.
- Leitch, E. M.
- Leong, J.
- Lu, W.
- Lueker, M.
- Luong-Van, D.
- McMahon, J. J.
- Mehl, J.
- Meyer, S. S.
- Mohr, J. J.
- Montroy, T. E.
- Padin, S.
- Plagge, T.
- Pryke, C.
- Ruhl, J. E.
- Schaffer, K. K.
- Schwan, D.
- Shirokoff, E.
- Spieler, H. G.
- Staniszewski, Z.
- Stark, A. A.
- Tucker, Carole
- Vanderlinde, K.
- Vieira, J. D.
- Williamson, R.
DOIAbstract
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 m diameter, wide-field, offset Gregorian telescope with a 966 pixel, multicolor, millimeter-wave, bolometer camera. It is located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. The design of the SPT emphasizes careful control of spillover and scattering, to minimize noise and false signals due to ground pickup. The key initial project is a large-area survey at wavelengths of 3, 2, and 1.3 mm, to detect clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect and to measure the small-scale angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The data will be used to characterize the primordial matter power spectrum and to place constraints on the equation of state of dark energy. A se...
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