October,
2013....J.
Dana Hrubes...updated October 31, 2013, 2359 GMT
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November 1st, (New Zealand Time): The first LC-130 since early February off-loading Summer personnel
October is
an especially busy month. In
addition to regular work on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), there are
countless end of winter tasks to finish in preparation for the
first LC-130 aircraft on November
1st.
first lc-130
A DeHaviland Twin Otter that was transiting from Rothera Station to McMurdo Station
The sunlight revealed how bad the snow
accumulation and drifting was this year.
The Dark Sector Laboratory (DSL), where I work: before and after the long 9-month winter
The first deck of DSL (left or top) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT) seen peeking above a large drift (right or bottom)
Large
drift at MAPO (top or left) and the same drift shown intersecting the
path to SPT and DSL that I had to walk over all winter (bottom or right)
Recent SPT News:
The SPT
collaboration made the news recently after submitting a paper
detailing the first measurements of a long predicted polarization
pattern in the afterglow of the Big Bang, called lensed
B-modes. Nature
Magazine
Sky and Telescope Magazine Physics
World the SPT technical paper
Next Month: November - Back to New Zealand then home!
Recent
South Pole Telescope Technical Papers
A Real-Time Photo of South Pole Station as Seen
from the ARO
Building (live when satellite is up)
A
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South Pole Web Site by Bill Spindler
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