The 10 meter South Pole telescope

Carlstrom, J. E., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D. and Williamson, R. 2011. The 10 meter South Pole telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 123 (903) , pp. 568-581. 10.1086/659879

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Abstract

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 second-generation camera will measure the polarization of the CMB, potentially leading to constraints on the neutrino mass and the energy scale of inflation

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Astronomical Instrumentation
Publisher:	Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ISSN:	0004-6280
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 13:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/15383

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