Inter-Division IX-X Working Group Encouraging the International Development of Antarctic Astronomy

• Main Authors: M. Burton, C. A. Abia, J. E. Carlstrom, V. C. du, X. Cui, S. Gurovich, T. Ichikawa, J. P. Lloyd, M. J. McCaughrean, H. Zinnecker, TOSTI, Gino
• Other Authors: M., Burton, C. A., Abia, J. E., Carlstrom, V. C., Du, X., Cui, S., Gurovich, T., Ichikawa, J. P., Lloyd, M. J., Mccaughrean, Tosti, Gino, H., Zinnecker
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11391/995318; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009IAUTA.27.328B

Two major astronomical experiments are underway at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The first is the South Pole Telescope, a 10m sub-millimetre telescope designed to measure primary and secondary anisotropies in the CMBR, with the aim of placing constraints on the equation of state for dark energy. The second is the IceCube neutrino observatory, which will be a cubic kilometre array designed to image sources of high energy neutrinos.