Probing reionization and large-scale structure with the South Pole Telescope
Christian Reichardt
Berkeley
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter telescope designed to survey
the millimeter-wave sky, taking advantage of the exceptional observing
conditions at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The telescope and its
ground-breaking 960-element bolometric camera were successfully installed
at the South Pole in 2007. Since then, SPT has embarked upon a large,
three-frequency survey covering 6% of the entire sky. I will report on
the multi-frequency power spectrum results for this survey, including
a detection of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) power and improved
upper limits on the kinetic SZ power. I will discuss how we can use the
kinetic SZ power and CMB polarization data to determine when the epoch
of reionization began, when it ended and how long it lasted.
Date: | Tuesday, 7 February 2012 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |
Contact: | Robert Rutledge |
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