Images of the Early Universe from the BOOMERanG experiment

• Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings
• Main Authors: de Bernardis, P., Crill, B. P., Ganga, K., Hivon, E., Hristov, V. V., Lange, A. E., Mason, P.
• Other Authors: Wheeler, J. C., Martel, H.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Institute of Physics 2001
• Subjects: radiofrequency cosmic radiation; astrophysical plasma; red shift; astronomical atlases; astronomical catalogues; cosmology; cosmic background radiation; Canada; Antartide
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1419548

The CMB is the fundamental tool to study the properties of the early universe and of the universe at large scales. In the framework of the Hot Big Bang model, when we look to the CMB we look back in time to the end of the plasma era, at a redshift ~ 1000, when the universe was ~ 50000 times younger, ~ 1000 times hotter and ~ 10^9 times denser than today. The image of the CMB can be used to study the physical processes there, to infer what happened before, and also to study the background geometry of our Universe. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. Issue Date: 15 October 2001. The BOOMERANG project has been supported by the CIAR and NSERC in Canada, by Programma Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide, Universita "La Sapienza", and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana in Italy, by PPARC in the UK, and by NASA, NSF OPP and NERSC in the U.S. We received superb field and flight support from NSBF and the USAP personnel in McMurdo. Published - BERaipcp01a.pdf