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Title: Millimeter transient point sources in the SPTpol 100 square degree survey

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  3. Cardiff Univ., Cardiff (United Kingdom)
  4. NIST Quantum Devices Group, Boulder, CO (United States)
  5. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  6. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  7. Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (South Africa)
  8. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  9. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
  10. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  11. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada); Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
  12. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  13. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
  14. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  15. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  16. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  17. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  18. NIST Quantum Devices Group, Boulder, CO (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  19. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  20. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  21. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  22. Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC (Australia)
  23. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
  24. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
  25. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada); Three-Speed Logic, Inc., Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  26. Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  27. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  28. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
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The millimeter transient sky is largely unexplored, with measurements limited to follow-up of objects detected at other wavelengths. High-angular-resolution telescopes, designed for measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), offer the possibility to discover new, unknown transient sources in this band—particularly the afterglows of unobserved gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here, we use the 10 m millimeter-wave South Pole Telescope, designed for the primary purpose of observing the CMB at arcminute and larger angular scales, to conduct a search for such objects. During the 2012–2013 season, the telescope was used to continuously observe a 100 deg2 patch of sky centered at R.A. 23h30m and decl. –55° using the polarization-sensitive SPTpol camera in two bands centered at 95 and 150 GHz. These 6000 hr of observations provided continuous monitoring for day- to month-scale millimeter-wave transient sources at the 10 mJy level. As a result, one candidate object was observed with properties broadly consistent with a GRB afterglow, but at a statistical significance too low (p = 0.01) to confirm detection.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
SPT
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-76SF00515; SC0015640
OSTI ID:
1260388
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1358455; OSTI ID: 1594620
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-119-AE-E; arXiv:1604.03507; 1445099
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 830, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 12 works
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