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Micro-bolometer arrays and the South Pole Telescope
Abstract: |
Instrumentation for bolometeric precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background has achieved the background noise limit. Significant improvements in sensitivity will only be realized with kilo-pixel bolometer arrays. I will discuss the detector development for the South Pole Telescope beginning with the deployment of a 700 element array consisting of Transition Edge Sensor micro-bolometers. This array is currently the most sensitive instrument for surveying galaxy clusters through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. I will also discuss a second focal plane intended for precision measurements of the CMB polarization. |
Speaker: |
Clarence Chang - University of Chicago |
Speaker Bio: |
Clarence Chang is a research scientist with the Kavli Institute for
Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D.
from Stanford University working on CDMS-II which used Transition Edge
Sensors (TES) in a direct-detection search for Dark Matter. He has spent
the last four years as a member of the South Pole Telescope (SPT)
collaboration. During that time, SPT hast constructed a 10-m telescope at
the South Pole with a 700 element TES bolometer array. The missions of SPT
include a galaxy cluster survey using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect,
studies of dusty galaxies, and measurements of primary and secondary
anisotropies of the CMB. |
Poster Link: |
Poster |
Presentation: |
Presentation on 3/18/2009 (PDF)
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