Fermilab employees, users and affiliates are invited to take part in an exciting moment for astronomy: the First Look livestream from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — June 23, 2025 at 10 a.m. US CDT. Watch from your own device or join an in-person watch party in the WH8XO Hornet’s Nest (capacity: 60 people). This is a unique opportunity… More »
A team led by the Fermilab CCD Group performed the first on-sky demonstration using Skipper CCDs on the SOAR Telescope in Chile. This demonstration helps retire perceived risks for using this technology in future cosmology experiments recommended by the P5 Report such as DESI-II and Spec-S5. This project was a collaborative effort from Fermilab, UChicago,… More »
Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center scientist Guillermo Fernandez Moroni was awarded a DOE Early Career Research Award from the Office of High Energy Physics for “Demonstrating enabling technologies for a spectroscopy instrument for the next cosmic survey”. Congratulations Guillermo! To read more about the award see the Fermilab announcement webpage. More about the DOE Early Career… More »
University of Chicago graduate student Edgar Marrufo Villalpando was recently awarded the Graduate Instrumentation Research Award from the APS Division of Particles and Fields. Edgar works at SiDet with CPC Scientists on the developing “Skipper CCDs for Dark Matter Measurements with Cosmic Surveys”. Congratulations Edgar! Read more about the DPF Instrumentation Awards here.
The SPT-3G experiment began its 2020 winter observing season on March 23, 2020. The SPT-3G camera on the South Pole Telescope (SPT) is undertaking a 1500 square degree survey of the cosmic microwave background, the light left over from the Big Bang. SPT is located at the geographic South Pole, and takes some of its… More »
