PIRSA:08100026

First results from the South Pole Telescope (SPT)

McMahon, J. (2008). First results from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08100026

McMahon, Jeff. First results from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Perimeter Institute, Oct. 07, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08100026 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:08100026,
            doi = {10.48660/08100026},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/08100026},
            author = {McMahon, Jeff},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {First results from the South Pole Telescope (SPT)},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2008},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:08100026 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Jeff McMahon

DOI 10.48660/08100026
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter submm-wave telescope optimized for large-field imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at arcminute resolution. The first key project of the SPT is a large area survey to find galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel\'dovich effect. Combined with optically determined redshifts, the survey yields will be used to place constraints on the nature of dark energy, via its effect on the growth of clusters and the geometry of the universe. Working toward this goal, the SPT has surveyed two 100 square degree fields at high sensitivity. This talk will review the status of the SPT, present some of the first SZ results, and discuss future science with this instrument.