Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 24-Apr-2024)

Result of query: info cati SPT-S$

Details on Acronym:   SPT-S
  
SPT-S (Unresolved source of emission identified in the South Pole Telescope survey)
Write:<<SPT-S JHHMMSS+DDMM.m>>
N: about 3000
Object:Radio(mm)  (SIMBAD class: mmRad = Millimetric Radio Source)
Note:The South Pole Telescope (SPT, http://pole.uchicago.edu/) is a 10-meter-diameter telescope operating at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as required to map primary and secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
Ref:=2010ApJ...719..763V
byVIEIRA J.D. , CRAWFORD T.M., SWITZER E.R., ADE P.A.R., AIRD K.A., ASHBY M.L.N., BENSON B.A., BLEEM L.E., BRODWIN M., CARLSTROM J.E., CHANG C.L., CHO H.-M., CRITES A.T., DE HAAN T., DOBBS M.A., EVERETT W., GEORGE E.M., GLADDERS M., HALL N.R., HALVERSON N.W., HIGH F.W., HOLDER G.P., HOLZAPFEL W.L., HRUBES J.D., JOY M., KEISLER R., KNOX L., LEE A.T., LEITCH E.M., LUEKER M., MARRONE D.P., McINTYRE V., McMAHON J.J., MEHL J., MEYER S.S., MOHR J.J., MONTROY T.E., PADIN S., PLAGGE T., PRYKE C., REICHARDT C.L., RUHL J.E., SCHAFFER K.K., SHAW L., SHIROKOFF E., SPIELER H.G., STALDER B., STANISZEWSKI Z., STARK A.A., VANDERLINDE K., WALSH W., WILLIAMSON R., YANG Y., ZAHN O., ZENTENO A.
 Astrophys. J., 719, 763-783 (2010)
  Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-° field.
oTable 5: <SPT-S JHHMMSS+DDMM.m> N=3496.
Ref:=2013ApJ...779...61M
byMOCANU L.M. , CRAWFORD T.M., VIEIRA J.D., AIRD K.A., ARAVENA M., AUSTERMANN J.E., BENSON B.A., BETHERMIN M., BLEEM L.E., BOTHWELL M., CARLSTROM J.E., CHANG C.L., CHAPMAN S., CHO H.-M., CRITES A.T., DE HAAN T., DOBBS M.A., EVERETT W.B., GEORGE E.M., HALVERSON N.W., HARRINGTON N., HEZAVEH Y., HOLDER G.P., HOLZAPFEL W.L., HOOVER S., HRUBES J.D., KEISLER R., KNOX L., LEE A.T., LEITCH E.M., LUEKER M., LUONG-VAN D., MARRONE D.P., McMAHON J.J., MEHL J., MEYER S.S., MOHR J.J., MONTROY T.E., NATOLI T., PADIN S., PLAGGE T., PRYKE C., REST A., REICHARDT C.L., RUHL J.E., SAYRE J.T., SCHAFFER K.K., SHIROKOFF E., SPIELER H.G., SPILKER J.S., STALDER B., STANISZEWSKI Z., STARK A.A., STORY K.T., SWITZER E.R., VANDERLINDE K., WILLIAMSON R.
 Astrophys. J., 779, 61 (2013)
  Extragalactic millimeter-wave point-source catalog, number counts and statistics from 771 °^{2} of the SPT-SZ survey.
oTable 4: <SPT-S JHHMMSS+DDMM.m> N=1545.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/ApJ/719/763/>
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/ApJ/779/61/>
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5