A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background with a Long Duration Balloon-borne Receiver

• Main Author: Brendan P. Crill
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; McMurdo Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.634.8422; http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/3180/1/bpc_thesis.pdf

iii This thesis describes Boomerang; a balloon-borne telescope and receiver designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at a resolution of 10 0 from the Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform. The millimeter-wave receiver employs new technology in bolometers, readout electronics, cold re-ima...