Observing the Evolution of the Universe

• Main Authors: James Aguirre, Alexandre Amblard, Amjad Ashoorioon, Carlo Baccigalupi, Amedeo Balbi, James Bartlett, Dominic Benford, Mark Birkinshaw, Jamie Bock, Dick Bond, Julian Borrill, Franois Bouchet, Michael Bridges, Emory Bunn, Erminia Calabrese, Christopher Cantalupo, Ana Caramete, Carmelita Carbone, Suchetana Chatterjee, Sarah Church, David Chuss, Carlo Contaldi, Asantha Cooray, Sudeep Das, Francesco De Bernardis, Paolo De Bernardis, Gianfranco De Zotti, Jacques Delabrouille, F. Xavier Dsert, Mark Devlin, Clive Dickinson, Simon Dicker, Matt Dobbs, Scott Dodelson, Olivier Dore, Jessie Dotson, Joanna Dunkley, Maria Cristina Falvella, Dale Fixsen, Pablo Fosalba, Joseph Fowler, Evalyn Gates, Walter Gear, Sunil Golwala, Krzysztof Gorski, Alessandro Gruppuso, Josh Gundersen, Mark Halpern, . Full list of 177 author available at h.t.t.p.:././.c.m.b.p.o.l. u.c.h.i.c.a.g.o. edu/, BARTOLO, NICOLA
• Other Authors: James, Aguirre, Alexandre, Amblard, Amjad, Ashoorioon, Carlo, Baccigalupi, Amedeo, Balbi, James, Bartlett, Bartolo, Nicola, Dominic, Benford, Mark, Birkinshaw, Jamie, Bock, Dick, Bond, Julian, Borrill, Franois, Bouchet, Michael, Bridge, Emory, Bunn, Erminia, Calabrese, Christopher, Cantalupo, Ana, Caramete, Carmelita, Carbone, Suchetana, Chatterjee, Sarah, Church, David, Chu, Carlo, Contaldi, Asantha, Cooray, Sudeep, Da, Francesco De, Bernardi, Paolo De, Bernardi, Gianfranco De, Zotti, Jacques, Delabrouille, F., Xavier Dsert, Mark, Devlin, Clive, Dickinson, Simon, Dicker, Matt, Dobb, Scott, Dodelson, Olivier, Dore, Jessie, Dotson, Joanna, Dunkley, Maria Cristina, Falvella, Dale, Fixsen, Pablo, Fosalba, Joseph, Fowler, Evalyn, Gate, Walter, Gear, Sunil, Golwala, Krzysztof, Gorski, Alessandro, Gruppuso, Josh, Gundersen, Mark, Halpern, Edu/, . Full list of 177 author available at h. t. t. p. :. /. /. c. m. b. p. o. l. u. c. h. i. c. a. g. o.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11577/2533289; http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0902

How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed measurements one may address everything from the physics of the birth of the universe to the history of star formation and the process by which galaxies formed. One may in addition track the evolution of the dark energy and discover the net neutrino mass. We are at the dawn of a new era in which hundreds of square degrees of sky can be mapped with arcminute resolution and sensitivities measured in microKelvin. Acquiring these data requires the use of special purpose telescopes such as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), located in Chile, and the South Pole Telescope (SPT). These new telescopes are outfitted with a new generation of custom mm-wave kilo-pixel arrays. Additional instruments are in the planning stages.