Dec 2013:
The South Pole Telescope's detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background's
B-mode polarization is among the top 10 breakthoughs of 2013 according to
Physics
World.
The SPT international team's study was lead by McGill's postdoctoral fellow Duncan
Hanson and included other members of
McGill's Astrophysics and
Cosmology group: Profs.
M. Dobbs and
G. Holder,
postdoctoral fellow Amy Bender and graduate student
Tijmen de Haan. A review of the original article
can be found
here and the article itself
here (requires subscription to Physical Review Letters' website) or
here.
