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Kathryn K. Schaffer


Visiting Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, School Art Institute of Chicago

Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2005
 
Contact Information
Phone: (773) 702-1564
Location: ERC 331
Email: kschaf2artic.edu
WWW: Web Site

 
Research
Ongoing Scientific Projects:

Past Scientific Projects: Interferometric Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging Experiment (SZE)

 
KICP Highlights & News

 
Talks, Lectures, & Workshops

 
KICP Publications
2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008


Latest Journal Publications
  1. "The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey", arXiv:1910.04121 (Oct 2019)
  2. "Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data", arXiv:1910.05748 (Oct 2019)
  3. "Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum", arXiv:1910.07157 (Oct 2019)
  4. "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between Dark Energy Survey Y1 galaxy weak lensing and South Pole Telescope+P l a n c k CMB weak lensing", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 4, id.043517 (Aug 2019)
  5. "Measurements of the Cross-spectra of the Cosmic Infrared and Microwave Backgrounds from 95 to 1200 GHz", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 881, Issue 2, article id. 96, 12 pp. (2019) (Aug 2019)
  6. "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Tomographic cross-correlations between Dark Energy Survey galaxies and CMB lensing from South Pole Telescope +Planck", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 4, id.043501 (Aug 2019)
  7. "Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Joint analysis of galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing, and CMB lensing two-point functions", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 2, id.023541 (Jul 2019)
  8. "Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 487, Issue 1, p.1363-1379 (Jul 2019)
  9. "Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 07, article id. 038 (2019) (Jul 2019)
  10. "Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey", arXiv:1907.02156 (Jul 2019)
  11. "A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol", arXiv:1907.08605 (Jul 2019)
  12. "Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey", arXiv:1907.09621 (Jul 2019)
  13. "Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 878, Issue 1, article id. 55, 25 pp. (2019) (Jun 2019)
  14. "A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data", arXiv:1905.05777 (May 2019)
  15. "Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES Clusters Using a Measurement of CMB-cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 872, Issue 2, article id. 170, 14 pp. (2019) (Feb 2019)
  16. "Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 239, Issue 1, article id. 10, 14 pp. (2018) (Nov 2018)
  17. "Measurements of the Cross Spectra of the Cosmic Infrared and Microwave Backgrounds from 95 to 1200 GHz", arXiv:1810.10643 (Oct 2018)
  18. "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: tomographic cross-correlations between DES galaxies and CMB lensing from SPT+Planck", arXiv:1810.02342 (Oct 2018)
  19. "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between DES Y1 galaxy weak lensing and SPT+Planck CMB weak lensing", arXiv:1810.02441 (Oct 2018)
  20. "Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the Angular Power Spectrum of a Combined 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ and Planck Gravitational Lensing Map", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 860, Issue 2, article id. 137, 9 pp. (2018) (Jun 2018)

Latest Conference Proceedings
  1. "Performance and on-sky optical characterization of the SPTpol instrument", Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8452, article id. 84521F, 15 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  2. "SPTpol: an instrument for CMB polarization measurements with the South Pole Telescope", Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8452, article id. 84521E, 18 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  3. "Feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter camera modules at 150 GHz for CMB polarization measurements with SPTpol", Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8452, article id. 84523A, 15 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  4. "Design and characterization of 90 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter pixels in the SPTPol camera", Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8452, article id. 845239, 12 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  5. "South Pole Telescope software systems: control, monitoring, and data acquisition", Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8451, article id. 84510T, 11 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  6. "SPTpol: an instrument for CMB polarization", THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTORS-LTD13. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1185, pp. 511-514 (2009) (Dec 2009)
  7. "SPT-SZ: a Sunyaev-ZePdovich survey for galaxy clusters", THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTORS-LTD13. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1185, pp. 475-477 (2009) (Dec 2009)

 
Visitors
Past Visitors:
  1. Gajus Miknaitis, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2007)
  2. Tom Murphy, University of California, San Diego (2006)