South Pole Telescope

October 1, 2018: Successful 2018 season nearly finished with SPT-3G camera, 1-month until first austral flights arrive.

August 1, 2018: Preliminary SPT-3G temperature map at 95 GHz of the 1500 sq. deg survey field taken from one week of observations during winter 2018. A zoom into a sub-set of the field (highlighted in red) shows a comparison between the SPT-3G and Planck 143 GHz maps over the same area. The nearly identical large-scale features in the two maps demonstrate that the SPT-3G map is already signal-dominated on angular scales measured well by Planck.

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October, 2018: The SPT-3G camera has nearly completed it's 2018 observing season! Winter-overs Joshua Montgomery and Adam Jones have nearly finished a successful 2018 austral-winter observing season at the South Pole! They will continue using SPT-3G to observe the 1500 sq. deg. survey patch for another month, before being relieved by a small austral-summer crew who will perform maintenance and improvements on the telescope and camera.

The South Pole Telescope is funded through the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science.

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