A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as required to map primary and secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. The SPT is a collaboration between the U of Chicago, UC Berkley, Case Western Reserve University, U of Illinois, and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and its primarily funded thought NSF OPP.

• "SPT White Paper for the Dark Energy Task Force" [PDF format]

• Official 10 Meter Telescope ground breaking;
  November 15, 2004 at 10:50 am at pad location in Antarctica. [more]

• "The South Pole Telescope", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5498, p 11-29, 2004 [PDF format]