Journal article
The first public release of south pole telescope data: Maps of a 95deg 2 field from 2008 observations
KK Schaffer, TM Crawford, KA Aird, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, HM Cho, AT Crites, T De Haan, MA Dobbs, EM George, NW Halverson, GP Holder, WL Holzapfel, S Hoover, JD Hrubes, M Joy, R Keisler, L Knox Show all
Astrophysical Journal | Published : 2011
Abstract
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) has nearly completed a 2500deg2 survey of the southern sky in three frequency bands. Here, we present the first public release of SPT maps and associated data products. We present arcminute-resolution maps at 150GHz and 220GHz of an approximately 95deg 2 field centered at R.A. 82°7, decl. -55°. The field was observed to a depth of approximately 17 μKarcmin at 150GHz and 41 μKarcmin at 220GHz during the 2008 austral winter season. Two variations on map filtering and map projection are presented, one tailored for producing catalogs of galaxy clusters detected through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signature and one tailored for producing catalogs of emissive sou..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The South Pole Telescope is supported by the National Science Foundation through grants ANT-0638937 and ANT-0130612. 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. The McGill group acknowledges funding from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Research Chairs program, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Partial support at Harvard is provided by NSF grants AST-1009012, AST-1009649, and MRI-0723073. B. A. B. is supported by a KICP Fellowship. M. D. and N.H. acknowledge support from Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. R. K. acknowledges support from NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HF-51275.01. J.J.M. acknowledges support from the DFG supported Excellence Cluster Universe and the transregio program TR33: Dark Universe. B. S. acknowledges partial support from the Brinson Foundation. We acknowledge the use of the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA). Support for LAMBDA is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science.