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The 10 Meter South Pole Telescope

J. E. CarlstromUniversity-of ChicagoP. A. R. AdeCardiff UniversityK. A. AirdThe University of ChicagoB. A. BensonUniversity of California at BerkeleyL. E. BleemUniversity of ChicagoS. BusettiGeneral Dynamics Satcom TechnologiesC. L. ChangUniversity of ChicagoEric ChauvinGeneral Dynamics Satcom TechnologiesH.-M. ChoNational Institute of Standards and Technology,T. M. CrawfordThe University of ChicagoA. T. CritesThe University of ChicagoM. DobbsMcGill University, 3600 rue UniversityN. W. HalversonUniversity of Colorado ‐ BoulderS. HeimsathThe University of ChicagoW. L. HolzapfelUniversity of California at BerkeleyJ. D. HrubesThe University of ChicagoM. Joy[NASA Marshall Space Flight Center]R. KeislerThe University of ChicagoT. LantingMcGill University, 3600 rue UniversityA. T. LeeUniversity of California at BerkeleyE. M. LeitchThe University of ChicagoJ. LeongCase Western Reserve University ,Wei LüCase Western Reserve University ,M. LuekerUniversity of California at BerkeleyD. Luong-VanThe University of ChicagoJ. J. McMahonUniversity of ChicagoJ. MehlUniversity of California at BerkeleyS. S. MeyerUniversity of ChicagoJ. J. MohrUniversity of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignT. E. MontroyCase Western Reserve University ,S. PadinThe University of ChicagoT. PlaggeUniversity of California at BerkeleyC. PrykeUniversity of ChicagoJ. E. RuhlCase Western Reserve University ,K. K. SchafferUniversity of ChicagoD. SchwanUniversity of California at BerkeleyE. ShirokoffUniversity of California at BerkeleyH. G. SpielerLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryZ. StaniszewskiCase Western Reserve University ,A. A. StarkHarvard UniversityC. TuckerCardiff UniversityK. VanderlindeThe University of ChicagoJ. D. VieiraNational Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)R. WilliamsonThe University of Chicago

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Abstract

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 m diameter, wide-field, offset Gregorian telescope with a 966-pixel, multi-color, millimeter-wave, bolometer camera. It is located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. The design of the SPT emphasizes careful control of spillover and scattering, to minimize noise and false signals due to ground pickup. The key initial project is a large-area survey at wavelengths of 3, 2 and 1.3 mm, to detect clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and to measure the small-scale angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The data will be used to characterize the primordial matter power spectrum and to place constraints on the equation of state of dark energy. A second-generation camera will measure the polarization of the CMB, potentially leading to constraints on the neutrino mass and the energy scale of inflation.

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DOI: 10.1086/659879

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