Measurements of Secodary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope

• Main Author: Lueker, Martin Van
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2010
• Subjects: Physics; Cosmic Microwave Background; Large-Scale Structure; Millimeter Wave Instrumentation; Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices; Lambda; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1m21q7w6; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5ng4vkk

The South Pole Telescope is a 10m millimeter-wavelength telescope for finding galaxy clusters via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part describes the development of the kilopixel SPT-SZ receiver and the frequency-domain multiplexor (f...