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  • STO (Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory) Telescope, a balloon-borne 80 cm telescope exploring the Milky Way in the far-infrared [CII] and [NII] lines. STO had a successful 14-day Antarctic flight in January 2012 and was preparing for a 2015/2016 flight during my visit. Principal Investigator for the project is Chris Walker.
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  • The GRIPS telescope will provide a near-optimal combination of high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of solar-flare gamma-ray/hard X-ray emissions from ~20 keV to >~10 MeV. GRIPS did launched on January 19, 2016, for a long-duration flight over Antarctica at an altitude of up to 130,000 feet.
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  • Nicole Duncan working on the GRIPS Telescope
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  • GRIPS Telescope
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  • GRIPS Telescope
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  • GRIPS Telescope
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  • GRIPS Telescope
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  • GRIPS Telescope
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  • The Stratospheric TeraHertz Observatory (STO) is a NASA funded, Long Duration Balloon (LDB) experiment designed to address a key problem in modern astrophysics: understanding the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium (ISM). STO itself has three main components; 1) an 80 cm optical telescope, 2) a THz instrument package, and 3) a gondola.
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  • GRIPS Telescope
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  • The South Pole Telescope an be put into a parked position over the lab, and trap doors opened to allow maintenance of the telescope. This view looks up into the receiver cabin of the South Pole Telescope
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  • Inside the ground shield of the Keck Array Telescope with 2 of the receivers removed as part of the upgrade of the telescope to the BICEP Array Telescope.
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  • The Keck Array telescope from inside the telescope mount, with 2 receivers removed and 3 remaining, during upgrade of the telescope to the Bicep Array.
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  • The Keck Array telescope from inside the telescope mount, with 2 receivers removed and 3 remaining, during upgrade of the telescope to the Bicep Array.
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  • Inside the grond shield of the Keck Array Telescope with 2 of the recievers removed as part of the upgrade of the telescope to the BICEP Array Telescope.
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  • The South Pole Telescope an be put into a parked position over the lab, and trap doors opened to allow maintenance of the telescope. This view looks up into the receiver cabin of the South Pole Telescope
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  • The Dark Sector Lab a half kilometer walk from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The Dark Sector Lab  houses the South Pole Telescope (left) and the BICEP3 Telescope.
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  • The Dark Sector Lab a half kilometer walk from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The Dark Sector Lab  houses the South Pole Telescope (left) and the BICEP3 Telescope.
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  • The Dark Sector Laboratory, which houses the South Pole Telescope (left), and the BICEP3 telescope, both are imaging the CMB, cosmic microwave background.
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  • The Dark Sector Laboratory, which houses the South Pole Telescope (left), and the BICEP3 telescope, both are imaging the CMB, cosmic microwave background.
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  • The other telescope at LDB during 2015 was the GRIPS (Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares) telescope
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  • Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory (MAPO), location of the Keck Array Telescope, which was being upgraded at the time of my visit to the BICEP Array.
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  • South Pole Telescope from a window in the Dark Sector Lab.
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  • Inside the Dark Sector Lab, computers and control hardware for the South Pole telescope
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  • The focal plane, the telescope version of a digital sensor, of one of the Keck Array Receivers.
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  • BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • South Pole Telescope from a window in the Dark Sector Lab.
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  • The 10 meter South Pole Telescope during scheduled maintenance. Greasing the gears.
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  • The South Pole Telescope and the vast Polar Plateau beyond.
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  • BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • John Kovac, PI of the Keck Array to Bicep Array upgrade, with Paula Crock at the controls of the BICEP3 telescope
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  • Keck Array telescope with 2 receivers removed and 3 remaining
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  • One of the receivers that had been removed from the Keck Array Telescope inside the MAPO Lab.
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  • John Kovac, PI for the Keck Array upgrade project standing next to the Keck Array Telescope inside the ground shield on the roof of the Martin A Pomerantz Observatory, South Pole.
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  • BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • Amy Lowitz giving us a detailed view of the South Pole Telescope.
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  • Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory (MAPO), location of the Keck Array Telescope, which was being upgraded at the time of my visit to the BICEP Array.
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  • The focal plane, the telescope version of a digital sensor, of one of the Keck Array Receivers.
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  • The 10 meter South Pole Telescope during scheduled maintenance. Greasing the gears.
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  • BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • The 10 meter South Pole Telescope during scheduled maintenance. Greasing the gears.
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  • BICEP3 telescope and computers in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • Nathan Precut showing me the interior of the Keck Array telescope just before dissasembly of the receivers.
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  • Sun halo framing the BICEP3 telescope ground shield
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  • Sun halo framing the South Pole Telescope
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  • IceCube Neutrino Telescope Counting Laboratory on my first full day at Pole, framed with a sun halo.
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  • The South Pole Telescope and the vast Polar Plateau beyond.
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  • John Kovac, PI of the BICEP3 and BICEP Array projects, and Paula Crock at the computer console of the BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab.
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  • BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab
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  • Nathan Precup in the MAPO lab just below the Keck Array telescope. He told me that this messy tangle of wires was giving him sleepless nights, and he couldn't wait to sort it out.
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  • Keck Array receiver after removal from telescope mount
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  • The Dark Sector Lab with the South Pole Telescope on left and BICEP3 on the right.
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  • John Kovac, PI of the BICEP3 and BICEP Array projects, and Paula Crock at the computer console of the BICEP3 Telescope in the Dark Sector Lab.
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  • One of the receivers that had been removed from the Keck Array Telescope inside the MAPO Lab.
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  • LDB site, in the distance are the two telescope assembly hangars, the two tallest buildings in Antarctica.
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  • The GRIPS telescope will provide a near-optimal combination of high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of solar-flare gamma-ray/hard X-ray emissions from ~20 keV to >~10 MeV. GRIPS did launched on January 19, 2016, for a long-duration flight over Antarctica at an altitude of up to 130,000 feet.
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  • Dark Sector Lab, Bicep3 and South Pole telescopes
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  • Millions of cubic feet of compressed helium in cylinders used to fill balloons which carry LDB telescopes payloads into the stratosphere to altitudes of 130,000 ft (39,620 M). Mount Erebus in the background.
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