The South Pole telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 11-29

  Ruhl, J E ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Carlstrom, J E ^c   Cho, H M ^d   Crawford, T ^d   Dobbs, M ^e   Greer, C H ^c   Halverson, N W ^d   Holzapfel, W L ^d   Lanting, T M ^d   Lee, A T ^d,e   Leitch, E M ^c   Leong, J ^a   Lu, W ^a   Lucker, M ^d   Mehl, J ^d   Meyer, S S ^c   Mohr, J J ^f   Padin, S ^c   Plagge, T ^d   Pryke, C ^c   Runyan, M C ^c   Schwan, D ^d   Sharp, M K ^c   Spieler, H ^e   Staniszewski, Z ^a   Stark, A A ^g   more..

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometric detectors; Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; Focal plane arrays; Millimeter and Submillimeter wave Techniques; Radio telescopes; Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BOLOMETERS; COSMIC RAYS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MILLIMETER WAVES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SENSORS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BOLOMETERIC DETECTORS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; MILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNIQUES; SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNIQUES; SUNYAEV-ZELDOVICH EFFECT;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 19944434377     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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