Archeops' results on the Cosmic Microwave Background

• Main Author: Henrot-Versillé, S
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Astrophysics and Astronomy; Arctic; Kiruna; Lambda
• Online Access: http://cds.cern.ch/record/619422

Archeops is a balloon--borne experiment dedicated to the measurement of the temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from large angular scales to about 10 arcminutes. A brief introduction to the CMB is given below, followed by a description of the Archeops experiment. Archeo...