The South Pole Telescope is a 10 meter diameter telescope operating 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 is primarily funded through NSF OPP.

• "Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey", ApJ, submitted, arXiv:0510.1578 [PDF format]

• "South Pole Telescope Optics", 2008ApOpt..47.4418P

• "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]