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