The South Pole Telescope: Latest Results and Future Prospects
Abstract The South Pole Telescope is a 10 meter telescope optimized for sensitive, high-resolution measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy and millimeter-wavelength sky. In November 2011, the SPT completed the 2500 deg 2 SPT-SZ survey. The survey has led to several major cos...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s1743921312016705 2023-05-15T18:22:06+02:00 The South Pole Telescope: Latest Results and Future Prospects Benson, Bradford 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921312016705 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1743921312016705 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union volume 8, issue S288, page 76-79 ISSN 1743-9213 1743-9221 Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science journal-article 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921312016705 2022-04-07T08:06:49Z Abstract The South Pole Telescope is a 10 meter telescope optimized for sensitive, high-resolution measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy and millimeter-wavelength sky. In November 2011, the SPT completed the 2500 deg 2 SPT-SZ survey. The survey has led to several major cosmological results, derived from measurements of the fine angular scale primary and secondary CMB anisotropies, the discovery of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the resulting mass-limited cluster catalog, and the discovery of a population of distant, dusty star forming galaxies (DSFGs). In January 2012, the SPT was equipped with a new polarization sensitive camera, SPTpol, which will enable detection of the contribution to the CMB polarization power spectrum from lensing by large scale structure (the so-called “lensing B -modes”) and, on larger angular scales, a detection or improved upper limit on the primordial inflationary signal (“gravitational-wave B -modes”), thereby constraining the energy scale of Inflation. Development is underway for SPT-3G, the third-generation camera for SPT. The SPT-3G survey will cross the threshold from statistical detection of B -mode CMB lensing to imaging the fluctuations at high signal-to-noise; enabling the separation of lensing and inflationary B -modes and improving the constraint on the sum of the neutrino masses Σ m ν to a level relevant for exploring the neutrino mass hierarchy. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) South Pole Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 8 S288 76 79 |
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Abstract The South Pole Telescope is a 10 meter telescope optimized for sensitive, high-resolution measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy and millimeter-wavelength sky. In November 2011, the SPT completed the 2500 deg 2 SPT-SZ survey. The survey has led to several major cosmological results, derived from measurements of the fine angular scale primary and secondary CMB anisotropies, the discovery of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the resulting mass-limited cluster catalog, and the discovery of a population of distant, dusty star forming galaxies (DSFGs). In January 2012, the SPT was equipped with a new polarization sensitive camera, SPTpol, which will enable detection of the contribution to the CMB polarization power spectrum from lensing by large scale structure (the so-called “lensing B -modes”) and, on larger angular scales, a detection or improved upper limit on the primordial inflationary signal (“gravitational-wave B -modes”), thereby constraining the energy scale of Inflation. Development is underway for SPT-3G, the third-generation camera for SPT. The SPT-3G survey will cross the threshold from statistical detection of B -mode CMB lensing to imaging the fluctuations at high signal-to-noise; enabling the separation of lensing and inflationary B -modes and improving the constraint on the sum of the neutrino masses Σ m ν to a level relevant for exploring the neutrino mass hierarchy. |
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