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Description
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is observing the CMB with arcminutes resolution, with its third generation camera (SPT-3G). One of the main goals is to improve the current constraints on cosmological parameters. During the first observing season, SPT-3G observed its baseline sky patch (1500 deg2), and obtained cosmological constraints consistent with those from the Planck mission. Deeper observations of the SPT-3G baseline field are currently ongoing, as well as observations of additional 3000 deg2 that are observed during the summer season (the “summer fields”). In this talk I will present the ongoing analysis of the SPT-3G summer fields, and forecasts of the cosmological parameters relying on the SPT-3G extended survey (baseline+summer fields). The inclusion of the SPT-3G summer fields in the combined analysis of the SPT-3G baseline field and Planck data is expected to improve the constraints by 20% for the LCDM model, and by up to 50% for LCDM extensions.
