Kathryn K. Schaffer


Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2005
 
Contact Information
Phone: (773) 834-2103
Location: LASR 122
Email: kschaf2artic.edu
WWW: Web Site
 
Research
Ongoing Scientific Projects:
 
KICP Highlights & News

 
Talks, Lectures, & Workshops

 
KICP Publications
2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008


Latest Journal Publications
  1. "Extragalactic millimeter-wave point source catalog, number counts and statistics from 771 square degrees of the SPT-SZ Survey", arXiv:1306.3470 (Jun 2013)
  2. "The Growth of Cool Cores and Evolution of Cooling Properties in a Sample of 83 Galaxy Clusters at 0.3 < z < 1.2 Selected from the SPT-SZ Survey", arXiv:1305.2915 (May 2013)
  3. "ALMA Redshifts of Millimeter-selected Galaxies from the SPT Survey: The Redshift Distribution of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 767, Issue 1, article id. 88, 16 pp. (2013) (Apr 2013)
  4. "ALMA Observations of SPT-discovered, Strongly Lensed, Dusty, Star-forming Galaxies", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 767, Issue 2, article id. 132, 11 pp. (2013) (Apr 2013)
  5. "A measurement of the secondary-CMB and millimeter-wave-foreground bispectrum using 800 square degrees of South Pole Telescope data", arXiv:1303.3535 (Mar 2013)
  6. "Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing", Nature, Volume 495, Issue 7441, pp. 344-347 (2013) (Mar 2013)
  7. "A CMB lensing mass map and its correlation with the cosmic infrared background", arXiv:1303.5048 (Mar 2013)
  8. "Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the First 720 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 763, Issue 2, article id. 127, 20 pp. (2013) (Feb 2013)
  9. "SPT-CL J0205–5829: A z = 1.32 Evolved Massive Galaxy Cluster in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 763, Issue 2, article id. 93, 10 pp. (2013) (Feb 2013)
  10. "Cosmological Constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected Clusters with X-Ray Observations in the First 178 deg2 of the South Pole Telescope Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 763, Issue 2, article id. 147, 21 pp. (2013) (Feb 2013)
  11. "Redshifts, Sample Purity, and BCG Positions for the Galaxy Cluster Catalog from the First 720 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 761, Issue 1, article id. 22, 22 pp. (2012) (Dec 2012)
  12. "Constraints on Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum of the 2500-square degree SPT-SZ Survey", arXiv:1212.6267 (Dec 2012)
  13. "High-redshift Cool-core Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the South Pole Telescope Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 761, Issue 2, article id. 183, 9 pp. (2012) (Dec 2012)
  14. "Weak-lensing Mass Measurements of Five Galaxy Clusters in the South Pole Telescope Survey Using Magellan/Megacam", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 758, Issue 1, article id. 68, 22 pp. (2012) (Oct 2012)
  15. "A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey", arXiv:1210.7231 (Oct 2012)
  16. "Cosmic Microwave Background Constraints on the Duration and Timing of Reionization from the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 756, Issue 1, article id. 65, 15 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  17. "A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Microwave Background Using South Pole Telescope Data", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 756, Issue 2, article id. 142, 20 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  18. "Submillimeter Observations of Millimeter Bright Galaxies Discovered by the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 756, Issue 1, article id. 101, 13 pp. (2012) (Sep 2012)
  19. "A Measurement of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with Two Years of South Pole Telescope Observations", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 755, Issue 1, article id. 70, 23 pp. (2012) (Aug 2012)
  20. "A massive, cooling-flow-induced starburst in the core of a luminous cluster of galaxies", Nature, Volume 488, Issue 7411, pp. 349-352 (2012) (Aug 2012)

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)