The South Pole Telescope
A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as required to map primary and secondary anisotropies in the c...
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ftunivnotexas:info:ark/67531/metadc885152 2023-05-15T18:22:13+02:00 The South Pole Telescope Ruhl, J. E. Ade, P. A. R. Carlstrom, J. E. Cho, H. M. Crawford, T. Dobbs, M. Greer, C. H. Halverson, N. W. Holzapfel, W. L. Lanting, T. M. Lee, A. T. Leitch, E. M. Leong, J. Lu, W. Lueker, M. Mehl, J. Meyer, S. S. Mohr, J. J. Padin, S. Plagge, T. Pryke, C. Runyan, M. C. Schwan, D. Sharp, M. K. Spieler, H. Staniszewski, Z. Stark, A. A. USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High Energy andNuclear Physics. Office of High Energy Physics National ScienceFoundation Grants PHY-0114422 and OPP-0130612 2004-11-04 Text https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc885152/ English eng SPIE, none Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory rep-no: LBNL--57721 grantno: DE-AC02-05CH11231 osti: 888757 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc885152/ ark: ark:/67531/metadc885152 Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation,Glasgow, Scotland, 21-25 June, 2004 71 Classical And Quantum Mechanics General Physics Wavelengths Radio Telescopes Millimeter- And Submillimeter-Wave Techniquesbolometric Detectors Focal Plane Arrays Apertures Sensitivity Resolution Design 72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields Windows Radio Telescopes Millimeter- And Submillimeter-Wave Techniquesbolometric Detectors Focal Plane Arrays Galaxy Clusters Screens Relict Radiation Telescopes Optics Accuracy Meters Article 2004 ftunivnotexas 2020-05-09T22:08:09Z A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as required to map primary and secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. To achieve the required sensitivity and resolution, the telescope design employs an off-axis primary with a 10 m diameter clear aperture. The full aperture and the associated optics will have a combined surface accuracy of better than 20 microns rms to allow precision operation in the submillimeter atmospheric windows. The telescope will be surrounded with a large reflecting ground screen to reduce sensitivity to thermal emission from the ground and local interference. The optics of the telescope will support a square degree field of view at 2mm wavelength and will feed a new 1000-element micro-lithographed planar bolometric array with superconducting transition-edge sensors and frequency-multiplexed readouts. The first key project will be to conduct a survey over 4000 degrees for galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect. This survey should find many thousands of clusters with a mass selection criteria that is remarkably uniform with redshift. Armed with redshifts obtained from optical and infrared follow-up observations, it is expected that the survey will enable significant constraints to be placed on the equation of state of the dark energy. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole University of North Texas: UNT Digital Library South Pole |
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71 Classical And Quantum Mechanics General Physics Wavelengths Radio Telescopes Millimeter- And Submillimeter-Wave Techniquesbolometric Detectors Focal Plane Arrays Apertures Sensitivity Resolution Design 72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields Windows Radio Telescopes Millimeter- And Submillimeter-Wave Techniquesbolometric Detectors Focal Plane Arrays Galaxy Clusters Screens Relict Radiation Telescopes Optics Accuracy Meters Ruhl, J. E. Ade, P. A. R. Carlstrom, J. E. Cho, H. M. Crawford, T. Dobbs, M. Greer, C. H. Halverson, N. W. Holzapfel, W. L. Lanting, T. M. Lee, A. T. Leitch, E. M. Leong, J. Lu, W. Lueker, M. Mehl, J. Meyer, S. S. Mohr, J. J. Padin, S. Plagge, T. Pryke, C. Runyan, M. C. Schwan, D. Sharp, M. K. Spieler, H. Staniszewski, Z. Stark, A. A. The South Pole Telescope |
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A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as required to map primary and secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. To achieve the required sensitivity and resolution, the telescope design employs an off-axis primary with a 10 m diameter clear aperture. The full aperture and the associated optics will have a combined surface accuracy of better than 20 microns rms to allow precision operation in the submillimeter atmospheric windows. The telescope will be surrounded with a large reflecting ground screen to reduce sensitivity to thermal emission from the ground and local interference. The optics of the telescope will support a square degree field of view at 2mm wavelength and will feed a new 1000-element micro-lithographed planar bolometric array with superconducting transition-edge sensors and frequency-multiplexed readouts. The first key project will be to conduct a survey over 4000 degrees for galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect. This survey should find many thousands of clusters with a mass selection criteria that is remarkably uniform with redshift. Armed with redshifts obtained from optical and infrared follow-up observations, it is expected that the survey will enable significant constraints to be placed on the equation of state of the dark energy. |
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Ruhl, J. E. Ade, P. A. R. Carlstrom, J. E. Cho, H. M. Crawford, T. Dobbs, M. Greer, C. H. Halverson, N. W. Holzapfel, W. L. Lanting, T. M. Lee, A. T. Leitch, E. M. Leong, J. Lu, W. Lueker, M. Mehl, J. Meyer, S. S. Mohr, J. J. Padin, S. Plagge, T. Pryke, C. Runyan, M. C. Schwan, D. Sharp, M. K. Spieler, H. Staniszewski, Z. Stark, A. A. |
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Ruhl, J. E. Ade, P. A. R. Carlstrom, J. E. Cho, H. M. Crawford, T. Dobbs, M. Greer, C. H. Halverson, N. W. Holzapfel, W. L. Lanting, T. M. Lee, A. T. Leitch, E. M. Leong, J. Lu, W. Lueker, M. Mehl, J. Meyer, S. S. Mohr, J. J. Padin, S. Plagge, T. Pryke, C. Runyan, M. C. Schwan, D. Sharp, M. K. Spieler, H. Staniszewski, Z. Stark, A. A. |
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The South Pole Telescope |
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The South Pole Telescope |
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The South Pole Telescope |
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Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation,Glasgow, Scotland, 21-25 June, 2004 |
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