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Stephen Hoover KICP Associate fellow, McCormick Fellow, EFI The University of Chicago Contact Information KICP Highlights & News Talks, Lectures, & Workshops Currently in Committees KICP Publications Visitors   Contact Information Location: LASR 134 Email: hooverkicp.uchicago.edu   KICP Highlights & News 'Nuisance' data lead to surprising star-birth discovery, The University of Chicago News Office Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars, NASA Giant galaxy cluster sets record pace for creating stars, The University of Chicago News Office The South Pole Telescope Measures Small-scale Structure of the Cosmic Microwave Background to Unprecedented Precision, KICP Highlight South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos, The University of Chicago News Office   Talks, Lectures, & Workshops KICP Postdocs Symposium, Spring 2013 Postdocs Symposium (organizer) KICP Postdocs Symposium, Winter 2013 Postdocs Symposium KICP Postdocs Symposium, Spring 2012 Postdocs Symposium   Currently in Committees Friday Seminar committee   KICP Publications 2013 | 2012 | 2011 Latest Journal Publications "Extragalactic millimeter-wave point source catalog, number counts and statistics from 771 square degrees of the SPT-SZ Survey", arXiv:1306.3470 (Jun 2013) "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) "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) "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) "An Interferometric Analysis Method for Radio Impulses from Ultra-high Energy Particle Showers", arXiv:1304.5663 (Apr 2013) "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) "Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing", Nature, Volume 495, Issue 7441, pp. 344-347 (2013) (Mar 2013) "A CMB lensing mass map and its correlation with the cosmic infrared background", arXiv:1303.5048 (Mar 2013) "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) "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) "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) "Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction", arXiv:1301.4423 (Jan 2013) "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) "Constraints on Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum of the 2500-square degree SPT-SZ Survey", arXiv:1212.6267 (Dec 2012) "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) "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) "A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey", arXiv:1210.7231 (Oct 2012) "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) "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) "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) Latest Conference Proceedings "First CMB Polarization Measurements from SPTpol", American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2013, April 13-16, 2013, abstract #D8.003 (Apr 2013) "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) "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) "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)   Visitors Past Visitors: Colin Bischoff, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2013) Aaron Chou, Fermilab (2013) Thomas Weisgarber, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2013) Caroline Clark, Imperial College London (2012) Vera Gluscevic, California Institute of Technology (2012) Daniel Grin, Institute for Advanced Study (2012)