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Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations from the South Pole

During the past decade, a year-round observatory has been established at the geographic South Pole by the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA). CARA has fielded several millimeter- and submillimeter-wave instruments:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Antony A. Stark

Design of SPT-SLIM focal plane; a spectroscopic imaging array for the South Pole Telescope

The Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SLIM) is a mm-wave line-intensity mapping (mm-LIM) experiment for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The goal of SPT-SLIM is to serve as a technical and scientific pathfinder for the demonstration of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 P. S. Barry , A. Anderson , B. Benson , J. E. Carlstrom , T. Cecil , C. Chang , M. Dobbs , M. Hollister , K. S. Karkare , G. K. Keating , D. Marrone , J. McMahon , J. Montgomery , Z. Pan , G. Robson , M. Rouble , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher

SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field

We present measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from observations of 4% of the sky with SPT-3G, the current camera on the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 E. Camphuis , W. Quan , L. Balkenhol , A. R. Khalife , F. Ge , F. Guidi , N. Huang , G. P. Lynch , Y. Omori , C. Trendafilova , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , P. S. Barry , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , F. Kéruzoré , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , A. Ouellette , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , S. Raghunathan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , A. Simpson , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Measurement From Python V

We analyze observations of the microwave sky made with the Python experiment in its fifth year of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. After modeling the noise and constructing a map, we extract the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Coble , S. Dodelson , M. Dragovan , K. Ganga , L. Knox , J. Kovac , B. Ratra , T. Souradeep

SPOrt: an Experiment Aimed at Measuring the Large Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a space experiment to be flown on the International Space Station during Early Utilization Phase aimed at measuring the microwave polarized emission with FWHM = 7deg, in the frequency range 22-90 GHz.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Carretti , S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , C. Sbarra , J. Monari , A. Orfei , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Zannoni , M. Tucci , M. Baralis , O. A. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , R. Fabbri , L. Nicastro , K. -W. Ng , V. A. Razin , E. N. Vinyajkin , M. V. Sazhin , I. A. Strukov

Measurement of the Full Shape of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Power Spectrum from South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) over roughly 100 ${\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 S. Raghunathan , P. A. R. Ade , D. Anbajagane , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , L. Balkenhol , D. R. Barron , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. Bock , S. Bocquet , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carron , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , R. Citron , A. Coerver , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , N. C. Ferree , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , A. K. Gao , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , E. M. George , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , A. Y. Q. Ho , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , J. D. Hrubes , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jhaveri , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , Y. Li , D. Li , A. E. Lowitz , A. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , T. J. Maccarone , A. S. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , J. J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , S. Patil , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , C. Pryke , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , E. Schiappucci , C. Sievers , A. C. Silva Oliveira , A. Simpson , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , M. P. Viero , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski , M. Zemcov

The KELT-South Telescope

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Sutherland, South Africa. The telescope surveys a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joshua Pepper , Rudolf B. Kuhn , Robert Siverd , David James , Keivan Stassun

The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry: BLAST-Pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLAST-Pol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLAST-Pol is the reconstructed BLAST…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laura M. Fissel , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angile , Steven J. Benton , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Natalie N. Gandilo , Joshua O. Gundersen , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeffrey Klein , Andrei L. Korotkov , Galen Marsden , Tristan G. Matthews , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tony K. Mroczkowski , C. Barth Netterfield , Giles Novak , Luca Olmi , Enzo Pascale , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Jamil A. Shariff , Juan Diego Soler , Nicholas E. Thomas , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole E. Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Derek Ward-Thompson , Donald V. Wiebe

Testing the $\mathbf{\Lambda}$CDM Cosmological Model with Forthcoming Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters enabled by three surveys conducted with SPT-3G, the third-generation camera on the South Pole Telescope. The surveys cover separate regions of 1500, 2650, and 6000 ${\rm deg}^{2}$ to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 K. Prabhu , S. Raghunathan , M. Millea , G. Lynch , P. A. R. Ade , E. Anderes , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Kéruzoré , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , F. Menanteau , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , A. Vitrier , J. D. Vieira , Y. Wan , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data consist of 790 square degrees of sky observed at 150 GHz during 2008 and 2009. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Keisler , C. L. Reichardt , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , J. Dudley , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

CMB from the South Pole: Past, Present, and Future

South Pole Station offers a unique combination of high, dry, stable conditions and well-developed support facilities. Over the past 20 years, a sequence of increasingly sophisticated CMB experiments at Pole have built on the experience of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-10 J. M. Kovac , D. Barkats

Constraints on Modified Gravity from ACT and SPT

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT) have recently provided new and precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy damping tail. This region of the CMB angular spectra, thanks to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-08 Andrea Marchini , Alessandro Melchiorri , Valentina Salvatelli , Luca Pagano

Data Reduction and Analysis of the Python V Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment

Observations of the microwave sky using the Python telescope in its fifth season of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica are presented. The system consists of a 0.75 m off-axis telescope instrumented with a HEMT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimberly Ann Coble

Detection of Thermal Emission at Millimeter Wavelengths from Low-Earth Orbit Satellites

The detection of artificial satellite thermal emission at millimeter wavelengths is presented using data from the 3rd-Generation receiver on the South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). This represents the first reported detection of thermal emission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 A. Foster , A. Chokshi , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , D. R. Barron , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , Y. Omori , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Cosmology from Antarctica

Observation of the CMB is central to observational cosmology, and the Antarctic Plateau is an exceptionally good site for this work. The first attempt at CMB observations from the Plateau was an expedition to the South Pole in December 1986…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 Robert W. Wilson , Antony A. Stark

Particle Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information about the content and evolution of the universe. The presence of light, weakly interacting particles impacts the expansion history of the early universe, which alters the temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 J. S. Avva , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , K. Aylor , R. Basu Thakur , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , L. Bryant , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , S. Dodelson , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , K. R. Ferguson , A. Foster , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , J. C. Groh , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , A. E. Lowitz , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , W. Quan , S. Raghunathan , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 W. L. K. Wu , L. M. Mocanu , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , A. Manzotti , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Simard , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko

Maps of the Magellanic Clouds from Combined South Pole Telescope and Planck Data

We present maps of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds from combined South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck data. The Planck satellite observes in nine bands, while the SPT data used in this work were taken with the three-band SPT-SZ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 T. M. Crawford , R. Chown , G. P. Holder , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Luong-Van , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Overview

A large wide-field telescope and camera with optical throughput over 200 m^2 deg^2 -- a factor of 50 beyond what we currently have -- would enable the detection of faint moving or bursting optical objects: from Earth threatening asteroids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Anthony Tyson , the LSST Collaboration

Optical Characterization of the SPT-3G Focal Plane

The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background across three frequency bands (95, 150 and 220 GHz) with ~16,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each multichroic pixel on a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-10 Zhaodi Pan , Peter Ade , Zeeshan Ahmed , Anderson Adam , Jason Austermann , Jessica Avva , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Bender Amy , Bradford Benson , John Carlstrom , Faustin Carter , Thomas Cecil , Clarence Chang , Jean-Francois Cliche , Ariel Cukierman , Edward Denison , Tijmen de Haan , Junjia Ding , Matt Dobbs , Daniel Dutcher , Wendeline Everett , Allen Foster , Renae Gannon , Adam Gilbert , John Groh , Nils Halverson , Angelina Harke-Horsemann , Nicholas Harrington , Jaosn Henning , Gene Hilton , William Holzapfel , Nicholas Huang , Kent Irwin , Oliver Jeong , Michalle Jonas , Trupti Khaire , Anna Kofman , Milo Korman , Donna Kubik , Steve Kuhlmann , Chaolin Kuo , Adrian Lee , Amy Lowitz , Stephan Meyer , Daniel Michalik , Joshua Montgomery , Andrew Nadolski , Tyler Natoli , Hogan Nguyen , Gavin Noble , Valentyn Novosad , Stephan Padin , John Pearson , Chrystian Posada , Alexandra Rahlin , John Ruhl , Lauren Saunders , James Sayre , Ian Shirley , Erik Shirokoff , Graeme Smecher , Joshua Sobrin , Antony Stark , Kyle Story , Aritoki Suzuki , Qingyang Tang , Keith Thompson , Carole Tucker , Leila Vale , Keith Vanderlinde , Joaquin Vieira , Gensheng Wang , Nathan Whitehorn , Volodymyr Yefremenko , Ki Won Yoon , Matt Young