Measurements of the Temperature and E-mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

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Funding Acknowledgements

The South Pole Telescope program is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant PLR-1248097. Partial support is also provided by the NSF Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-0114422 to the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant GBMF#947 to the University of Chicago. This work is also supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. J.W.H. is supported by the National Science Foundation under award no. AST-1402161. C.R. acknowledges support from an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT150100074). B.B. is supported by the Fermi Research Alliance LLC under contract no. De-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The Cardiff authors acknowledge support from the UK Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC). The CU Boulder group acknowledges support from NSF AST-0956135. The McGill authors acknowledge funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Canada Research Chairs program. Work at Argonne National Lab is supported by UChicago Argonne LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne). Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Laboratory, is operated under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. We also acknowledge support from the Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials. This work used resources made available on the Jupiter cluster, a joint data-intensive computing project between the High Energy Physics Division and the Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory. The data analysis pipeline also uses the scientific python stack (Hunter 2007; Jones et al. 2001; van der Walt et al. 2011) and the HDF5 file format (The HDF Group 1997).