The South Pole Telescope

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• Dr Steve Padin (University of Chicago)
• Tuesday 07 October 2008, 11:00-12:00
• Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Hardip Sanghera.

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-m, off-asix Gregorian telescope equipped with a ~1k-pixel, 3-colour, millimetre-wave bolometer camera. The telescope has an unblocked aperture, shielded beams and co-moving ground shields to minimize systematic errors due to scattering. SPT has just started a large survey of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. The goal is to set constraints on dark energy by measuring the redshift evolution of the density of clusters.

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks series.

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