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Publications (45)

astro-ph.CO2026

Cross-correlation of SPT-3G D1 CMB lensing and DES Y3 galaxy lensing

A. Ouellette, Y. Omori, E. Anderes +92

Measurements of the weak lensing of galaxies and of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide direct probes of the cosmic matter density field, but the two observables are sens…

astro-ph.GA2026

Millimeter-wave observations of Euclid Deep Field South using the South Pole Telescope: A data release of temperature maps and catalogs

M. Archipley, A. Hryciuk, L. E. Bleem +108

Context. The South Pole Telescope third-generation camera (SPT-3G) has observed over 10,000 square degrees of sky at 95, 150, and 220 GHz (3.3, 2.0, 1.4 mm, respectively) and will…

astro-ph.EP2023

Asteroid Measurements at Millimeter Wavelengths with the South Pole Telescope

P. M. Chichura, A. Foster, C. Patel +141

We present the first measurements of asteroids in millimeter wavelength (mm) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is used primarily to study the cosmic microwave backgro…

astro-ph.IM2023

Noise Optimization for MKIDs with Different Design Geometries and Material Selections

Z. Pan, K. R. Dibert, J. Zhang +13

The separation and optimization of noise components is critical to microwave-kinetic inductance detector (MKID) development. We analyze the effect of several changes to the lumped-…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G D1: Foreground-Robust Lensing Templates for Primordial Gravitational Wave Searches

Y. Nakato, W. L. K. Wu, Y. Omori +92

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generates B-mode polarization that acts as a source of contamination to searches for B modes generated by primordial…

astro-ph.CO2026

CMB Lensing Reconstruction Using Two Years of Temperature Data from the SPT-3G Summer Survey

K. Levy, S. Raghunathan, F. Guidi +91

We present the first reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential from the SPT-3G Summer survey using two years of temperature data. The Summer survey…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G D1: Maps of the millimeter-wave sky from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field

W. Quan, E. Camphuis, C. Daley +92

Maps of the sky in millimeter wavelengths contain rich information on cosmology through anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Creating multifrequency sky maps of a…

astro-ph.CO2024

Mass calibration of DES Year-3 clusters via SPT-3G CMB cluster lensing

B. Ansarinejad, S. Raghunathan, T. M. C. Abbott +142

We measure the stacked lensing signal in the direction of galaxy clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) redMaPPer sample, using cosmic microwave background (CMB) temper…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on Inflationary Gravitational Waves with Two Years of SPT-3G Data

J. A. Zebrowski, C. L. Reichardt, A. J. Anderson +95

We present a measurement of the -mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies at 32 502 for three bands centered at 95, 150,…

astro-ph.IM2025

Development of an MKID frequency-to-pixel LED mapper for SPT-3G+

E. S. Martsen, P. S. Barry, B. A. Benson +5

SPT-3G+ is the next-generation camera for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). SPT is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the mm/sub-mm sky. The planned focal…

astro-ph.HE2026

Polarization Angle Swings in Blazars Detected in the Millimeter-wave with the South Pole Telescope

A. Simpson, E. Anderes, A. J. Anderson +93

We present the first systematic search for electric vector position angle (EVPA) swings in the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) emission of blazars, using five years of observations from…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G D1: Axion Early Dark Energy with CMB experiments and DESI

A. R. Khalife, L. Balkenhol, E. Camphuis +92

We present the most up-to-date constraints on axion early dark energy (AEDE) from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements. In particula…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SPT-Deep Cluster Catalog: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Clusters from Combined SPT-3G and SPTpol Measurements over 100 Square Degrees

K. Kornoelje, L. E. Bleem, E. S. Rykoff +191

We present a catalog of 500 galaxy cluster candidates in the SPT-Deep field: a 100 deg field that combines data from the SPT-3G and SPTpol surveys to reach noise levels of 3.0,…

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

Millimeter-wave Detections of Symbiotic Stars in SPT and ACT Data

C. Tandoi, A. Foster, T. J. Maccarone +89

We present the results of a joint targeted search of candidate symbiotic stars at millimeter wavelengths using the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (A…

astro-ph.SR2025

Detection of Millimeter-Wavelength Flares from Two Accreting White Dwarf Systems in the SPT-3G Galactic Plane Survey

Y. Wan, J. D. Vieira, P. M. Chichura +96

Blind discoveries of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) transient events in non-targeted surveys, as opposed to follow-up or pointed observations, have only become possible in the past deca…

astro-ph.IM2021

SPT-SLIM: A Line Intensity Mapping Pathfinder for the South Pole Telescope

K. S. Karkare, A. J. Anderson, P. S. Barry +15

The South Pole Telescope Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) is a pathfinder experiment that will demonstrate the use of on-chip filter-bank spectrometers for mm-wave line…

astro-ph.CO2022

Searching for axion-like time-dependent cosmic birefringence with data from SPT-3G

K. R. Ferguson, A. J. Anderson, N. Whitehorn +78

Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates because of their potential to resolve small-scale discrepancies between CDM predictions and cosmolog…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmology From CMB Lensing and Delensed EE Power Spectra Using 2019-2020 SPT-3G Polarization Data

F. Ge, M. Millea, E. Camphuis +93

From CMB polarization data alone we reconstruct the CMB lensing power spectrum, comparable in overall constraining power to previous temperature-based reconstructions, and an unlen…

astro-ph.CO2021

Constraints on CDM Extensions from the SPT-3G 2018 and Power Spectra

L. Balkenhol, D. Dutcher, P. A. R. Ade +117

We present constraints on extensions to the CDM cosmological model from measurements of the -mode polarization auto-power spectrum and the temperature--mode cross-power s…

astro-ph.IM2025

Detection of Thermal Emission at Millimeter Wavelengths from Low-Earth Orbit Satellites

A. Foster, A. Chokshi, A. J. Anderson +88

The detection of artificial satellite thermal emission at millimeter wavelengths is presented using data from the 3rd-Generation receiver on the South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). This…

astro-ph.CO2024

First Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization Using the non-Gaussianity of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich Effect from the South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

S. Raghunathan, P. A. R. Ade, A. J. Anderson +121

We report results from an analysis aimed at detecting the trispectrum of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich (kSZ) effect by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and {…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

J. A. Sobrin, A. J. Anderson, A. N. Bender +120

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G D1: Compton- maps using data from the SPT-3G and Planck surveys

A. S. Maniyar, F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu +105

We present thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Compton- parameter maps constructed from two years (2019-2020) of observations with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) third-generation c…

astro-ph.CO2024

Testing the CDM Cosmological Model with Forthcoming Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

K. Prabhu, S. Raghunathan, M. Millea +98

We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters enabled by three surveys conducted with SPT-3G, the third-generation camera on the South Pole Telescope. The surveys cover separa…

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.CO2023

A Measurement of the CMB Temperature Power Spectrum and Constraints on Cosmology from the SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE Data Set

L. Balkenhol, D. Dutcher, A. Spurio Mancini +84

We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum () of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using observations of a $\sim\! 1500 \,\mathrm{de…

astro-ph.CO2023

A measurement of the mean central optical depth of galaxy clusters via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with SPT-3G and DES

E. Schiappucci, F. Bianchini, M. Aguena +139

We infer the mean optical depth of a sample of optically-selected galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. The…

astro-ph.IM2022

Performance and characterization of the SPT-3G digital frequency-domain multiplexed readout system using an improved noise and crosstalk model

J. Montgomery, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +118

The third generation South Pole Telescope camera (SPT-3G) improves upon its predecessor (SPTpol) by an order of magnitude increase in detectors on the focal plane. The technology u…

astro-ph.HE2021

Detection of Galactic and Extragalactic Millimeter-Wavelength Transient Sources with SPT-3G

S. Guns, A. Foster, C. Daley +119

High-angular-resolution cosmic microwave background experiments provide a unique opportunity to conduct a survey of time-variable sources at millimeter wavelengths, a population wh…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field

E. Camphuis, W. Quan, L. Balkenhol +94

We present measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from observations of 4% of the sky with SPT-3G, th…

astro-ph.CO2026

Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in 5 year data from the SPT-3G Main Survey

L. E. Bleem, M. Klein, K. Kornoelje +148

We report a new galaxy cluster catalog, selected using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, from 5 years of observations of the SPT-3G Main field. Drawn from arcminute-resol…

astro-ph.IM2026

Spectral characterization and performance of SPT-SLIM on-chip filterbank spectrometers

C. S. Benson, K. Fichman, M. Adamic +26

The South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) experiment is a pathfinder for demonstrating the use of on-chip spectrometers for millimeter (mm) Line Intensity…

astro-ph.IM2025

Pointing Accuracy Improvements for the South Pole Telescope with Machine Learning

P. M. Chichura, A. Rahlin, A. J. Anderson +93

We present improvements to the pointing accuracy of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) using machine learning. The ability of the SPT to point accurately at the sky is limited by its s…

astro-ph.CO2025

Towards constraining cosmological parameters with SPT-3G observations of 25% of the sky

A. Vitrier, K. Fichman, L. Balkenhol +104

The South Pole Telescope (SPT), using its third-generation camera, SPT-3G, is conducting observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization acros…

astro-ph.IM2023

RF-ICE: large-scale gigahertz readout of frequency-multiplexed microwave kinetic inductance detectors

M. Rouble, G. Smecher, A. Anderson +5

We present RF-ICE, a novel readout platform for microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), optimized for use on millimeter-wavelength telescopes. The RF-ICE system extends ICE…

astro-ph.IM2025

An On-Sky Atmospheric Calibration of SPT-SLIM

K. R. Dibert, M. Adamic, A. J. Anderson +26

We present the methodology and results of the on-sky responsivity calibration of the South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM). SPT-SLIM is a pathfinder line…

astro-ph.IM2025

Measurement and Modeling of Polarized Atmosphere at the South Pole with SPT-3G

A. Coerver, J. A. Zebrowski, S. Takakura +102

We present the detection and characterization of fluctuations in linearly polarized emission from the atmosphere above the South Pole. These measurements make use of data from the…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G D1: A Measurement of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Power

P. Chaubal, N. Huang, C. L. Reichardt +104

The authors present new measurements of the small‑scale CMB temperature power spectrum from two years of SPT‑3G data, using 95, 150, and 220 GHz observations to constrain thermal a…

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astro-ph.SR2025

Flaring Stars in a Non-targeted mm-wave Survey with SPT-3G

C. Tandoi, S. Guns, A. Foster +96

We present a flare star catalog from four years of non-targeted millimeter-wave survey data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data were taken with the SPT-3G camera and cove…

astro-ph.CO2021

Measurements of the E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation of the CMB from SPT-3G 2018 Data

D. Dutcher, L. Balkenhol, P. A. R. Ade +118

We present measurements of the -mode () polarization power spectrum and temperature--mode () cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background using data collec…

astro-ph.CO2026

Characterization of the Polarization Beam Response of SPT-3G Using Point Sources

T. de Haan, M. Archipley, N. Huang +101

Precise measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require rigorous control of instrumental systematics. For the South Pole Telescope's third-generation camera…

astro-ph.IM2022

SPT-3G+: Mapping the High-Frequency Cosmic Microwave Background Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors

A. J. Anderson, P. Barry, A. N. Bender +28

We present the design and science goals of SPT-3G+, a new camera for the South Pole Telescope, which will consist of a dense array of 34100 kinetic inductance detectors measuring t…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measurement of the Full Shape of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Power Spectrum from South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

S. Raghunathan, P. A. R. Ade, D. Anbajagane +139

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data…

astro-ph.IM2025

Design and Performance of the SPT-SLIM Receiver Cryostat

M. R. Young, M. Adamic, A. J. Anderson +28

The South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) is a millimeter-wavelength line-intensity mapping experiment, which was deployed on the South Pole Telescope (SP…