The 10 Meter South Pole Telescope

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 m diameter, wide-field, offset Gregorian telescope with a 966-pixel, multi-color, 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 scatteri...

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Main Authors: Carlstrom, J. E., Ade, P. 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, C., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R.
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Published: arXiv 2009
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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO
FOS Physical sciences
South Pole
Amundsen-Scott
Amundsen Scott South Pole Station
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
South pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0907.4445
https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4445
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Summary:The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 m diameter, wide-field, offset Gregorian telescope with a 966-pixel, multi-color, 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-Zeldovich 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. : 47 pages, 14 figures, updated to match version to be published in PASP 123 903 (May, 2011)

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