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astro-ph.SR2020

Forecasting Solar Cycle 25 using Deep Neural Networks

B. Benson, W. D. Pan, A. Prasad +2

With recent advances in the field of machine learning, the use of deep neural networks for time series forecasting has become more prevalent. The quasi-periodic nature of the solar…

astro-ph.CO2020

Evolution of the Thermodynamic Properties of Clusters of Galaxies out to Redshift of 1.8

V. Ghirardini, E. Bulbul, R. Kraft +11

The thermodynamic properties of the hot plasma in galaxy clusters retains information on the processes leading to the formation and evolution of the gas in their deep, dark matter…

physics.ins-det2010

Detection and Imaging of High-Z Materials with a Muon Tomography Station Using GEM Detectors

K. Gnanvo, B. Benson, W. Bittner +9

Muon tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons is a promising technique for detecting and imaging heavily shielded high-Z nuclear m…

astro-ph.CO2012

Optical followup of galaxy clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope

S. Desai, R. Armstrong, M. L. N. Ashby +21

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 meter telescope operating at mm wavelengths. It has recently completed a three-band survey covering 2500 sq. degrees. One of the survey's mai…

astro-ph.IM2023

Fabrication Development for SPT-SLIM, a Superconducting Spectrometer for Line Intensity Mapping

T. Cecil, C. Albert, A. J. Anderson +18

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe…

astro-ph.IM2021

Design of SPT-SLIM focal plane; a spectroscopic imaging array for the South Pole Telescope

P. S. Barry, A. Anderson, B. Benson +15

The Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SLIM) is a mm-wave line-intensity mapping (mm-LIM) experiment for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The goal of SPT-SLIM is to serve as a techni…