James Cornelison and Annie Polish on how @BICEP_Keck will calibrate their polarisation measurement, allowing them to give the most direct measurement of CMB birefringence (in 2025 hopefully!)
About this paper and future work: https://t.co/uDjZuowG7c
Smiling faces all around at our yearly collaboration meeting @uofcincy! Excited to plot our next steps towards groundbreaking discoveries about the early Universe with our friends from @SPTelescope at the South Pole! @NSF#Antarctica#southpole
SPHEREx Caltech instrument team is ready for #SPIEastro Overview of the instrument integration and testing at 2:30pm in 303/304 by proj scientist Dr. Phil Korngut followed by posters tonight by Dr. Howard Hui and yours truly! @Caltech@NASAJPL @LaurieofMars
Almost #Sunset at the #southpole#Antarctica, our winterover Josh captured this great silhouette of the CMB telescopes (@BICEP_Keck) in the Dark Sector and the Sun on the horizon!
Every year @BICEP_Keck does an extensive set of calibration measurements just before #Sunset that involves measuring sources on the rooftops of DSL/MAPO. Last week, @KevZag got a great picture of SPT while helping take down the setup last week on the MAPO roof! #Antarctica
Exciting announcement from @esa, that LISA is getting the go-ahead! Also nice to see the CMB, including the South Pole Telescope and @BICEP_Keck, pictured in their press release, highlighting our complementary search for gravitational waves! https://t.co/uSdY80rv01
Remarkable picture by @KevZag of a KBA Twin Otter passing in front of the SPT! Lots of small plane activity across the runway in mid-to-late December doing official @NSF OPP activities, and also from tourists groups visiting #southpole#Antarctica!
Exciting news! The US particle physics community is rallying behind CMB-S4, the next-gen experiment to uncover primordial gravitational waves, evolving from BICEP/Keck's pioneering work.
Big Bang observatory tops wish list for big US physics projects https://t.co/fsA2EAWGEA
New SPT result: "A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using SPT-3G 2018 Data"! Nice demo using only the 1st half-year of data from SPT-3G at https://t.co/gtVY7FcxxF #nsffuned#southpole
Great observing weather at the #southpole this past week, and a great opportunity for some amazing pictures of the sky by SPT winterover Kyle Ferguson! Is this #lidar on all the time?!? #Antarctica
For this past week's @BICEP_Keck collaboration meeting, I baked Chessmen-style butter cookies with Antarctica themes, CMB polarization themes, and BICEP themes: https://t.co/Zty602NAvO
Cool picture from @BICEP_Keck winter over Manwei Chen! Manwei is on the roof of the DSL building, which SPT shares with BICEP3, showing off his night vision red light headlamp #southpole#Antarctica
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Picture of the path out to DSL and SPT, from @BICEP_Keck winterover @themanwei! Even though its past #sunset, the glow of the Sun over the horizon should still be visible for a few more weeks. #southpole#Antarctica