Abstract
We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular
multipole range $2000 11,000$ (angular scales $5^\gtrsim
1^\prime$). By adding 95 and 150\,GHz data from the low-noise
500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey to the SPT-SZ three-frequency 2540 deg$^2$ survey, we
substantially reduce the uncertainties in these bands. These power spectra
include contributions from the primary cosmic microwave background, cosmic
infrared background, radio galaxies, and thermal and kinematic
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects. The data favor a thermal SZ (tSZ) power at
143\,GHz of $D^tSZ_3000 = 3.42 0.54~ K^2$ and a kinematic
SZ (kSZ) power of $D^kSZ_3000 = 3.0 1.0~ K^2$. This is
the first measurement of kSZ power at $3\,\sigma$. We study the
implications of the measured kSZ power for the epoch of reionization, finding
the duration of reionization to be $\Delta z_re = 1.0^+1.6_-0.7$ ($\Delta
z_re< 4.1$ at 95% confidence), when combined with our previously published
tSZ bispectrum measurement.
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