SPT-3G: a multichroic receiver for the South Pole Telescope

• Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• Main Authors: Anderson, A. J., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Cliche, J. F., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Denison, E. V., de Haan, T., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Foster, A., Gannon, R. N., Gilbert, A., Groh, J. C., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Khaire, T., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D., Kuhlmann, S., Kuklev, N., Kuo, C. L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag (Germany) 2018
• Subjects: South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/113385/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-2007-z; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/113385/1/LTD17_proc_aanderson.pdf

A new receiver for the South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, was deployed in early 2017 to map the cosmic microwave background at 95, 150, and 220 GHz with ∼ ∼ 16,000 detectors, 10 times more than its predecessor SPTpol. The increase in detector count is made possible by lenslet-coupled trichroic polarization-sensitive pixels fabricated at Argonne National Laboratory, new 68× × frequency-domain multiplexing readout electronics, and a higher-throughput optical design. The enhanced sensitivity of SPT-3G will enable a wide range of results including constraints on primordial B-mode polarization, measurements of gravitational lensing of the CMB, and a galaxy cluster survey. Here we present an overview of the instrument and its science objectives, highlighting its measured performance and plans for the upcoming 2018 observing season.