
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter-diameter millimeter-wave-class telescope located at the geographic South Pole, currently mapping the cosmic microwave background with a third-generation SPT-3G camera. The SPT-3G survey will provide the most sensitive measurement of the millimeter-wave sky in both temperature and polarization over ~10,000 square degrees and also will produce the most precise measurements of dark matter on degree scales. The SPT project is supported by the NSF, Office of Polar Programs (OPP), and DOE.
CAPS Work on the South Pole Telescope Project:
Researchers at CAPS have leadership roles within the SPT project and work on multiple science topics. These include, but are not limited to, the following: using the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and their correlations with galaxy surveys to infer cosmic inflation, dark matter, dark energy, epoch of reionization, and structure formation in the universe; detecting distant galaxies and galaxy clusters and characterizing them using high-resolution telescopes such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), among others; and detecting and monitoring submillimeter galactic and extragalactic transients.
CAPS Personnel Holding Leadership Roles on the SPT Project:
Gil Holder: Member of the Management Council
Srini Raghunathan: Co-Chair of the CMB Secondaries and Cross-Correlation Analysis Working Group
Joaquin Vieira: Member of the Management Council; Leader of the South Pole Telescope-Submillimeter Galaxy Collaboration (SPT-SMG) Working Group
Current CAPS Personnel on the South Pole Telescope Project:
Gil Holder (CAPS affiliated faculty)
Felipe Menanteau (CAPS Senior Research Scientist)
Srini Raghunathan (CAPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Cynthia Trendafilova (CAPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Joaquin Vieira (CAPS Director)
Yujie Wan (CAPS Graduate Student Fellow)