Details on Acronym: SPT-CL | |
SPT-CL | (Galaxy cluster identified in the South Pole Telescope survey) |
Write: | <<SPT-CL JHHMM+DDMM>> |
N: | about 1000 |
Object: | ClG (SIMBAD class: ClG = Cluster of Galaxies) |
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. |
Auth.: | Thomas Crawford |
Origin | of the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5 |