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Dr. Keith L. Thompson

Contact information:

current position: research scientist working with Prof. Sarah Church and company.

Formerly a postdoc under the late Prof. Jeff Willick. Before that, a member of the Projects Group at the (late) Royal Greenwich Observatory, a postdoc under Dr. Beverley Wills at U.T. Austin, an NRC Research Associate working with Dr. Jackie Fischer at NRL, and a postdoc with the VLBI group at Caltech, backwards in time.

Interests

Current Projects

QUIET (Q/U Imaging Experiment) , a new cosmic microwave background telescope project that will replace CBI in Chile. The Church group at Stanford are responsible for the telescopes. See Pictures at an Integration at Caltech where we are integrating the telescope, deck, and Q-band receiver.
Upgrades at the Stanford Student Observatory

Recent Projects

Measuring the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect with SuZIE-II ("Sunyaev-Zeldovich Infrared Experiment", though "infrared" is a stretch). See http://www.stanford.edu/~schurch/suzie.html
Building the next generation SZ instrument: SuZIE-III. At right is a picture of the cryostat under construction. July 2006: first observing run. See also Sarah's page.
Optical and mechanical assistance with QUaD ( QUEST on DASI), a CMB polarization experiement now deployed at the South Pole.
Stanford Cluster Search Realistically, this project has ended, though there is still one more candidate, with a redshift estimated at 1.0 or greater, to be confirmed.
High redshift QSO properties

Other Instrumentation

see first light images from Ingrid the infrared camera for William Herschel Telescope that I worked on while at RGO, taken over by Chris Packham and the team at La Palma in the Canary Islands. (or just see M100 which I pinched from Chris' web site.)
Optical imaging spectroscopy: new design concept, hopefully to be implemented soon in hardware. Goal: galaxy cluster velocity distribution in one observation.

Other sundry info