EXPERIMENT DESIGN AND FIRST SEASON OBSERVATIONS WITH THE DEGREE ANGULAR SCALE INTERFEROMETER

• Main Authors: E. M. Leitch, C. Pryke, N. W. Halverson, J. Kovac, G. Davidson, S. Laroque, J. Yamasaki, J. E. Carlstrom, W. L. Holzapfel, M. Dragovan, J. K. Cartwright, B. S. Mason, S. Padin, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Amundsen-Scott; Austral; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.257.5811; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0104488v3.pdf

We describe the instrumentation, experiment design and data reduction for the first season of observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), a compact microwave interferometer designed to measure anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on degree and sub-degree scales (...