BOOMERANG: A Balloon-borne Millimeter Wave Telescope and Total Power Receiver for Mapping Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background

• Main Authors: Crill, B. P., Ade, P. A. R., Artusa, D. R., Bhatia, R. S., Bock, J. J., Boscaleri, A., Cardoni, P., Church, S. E., Coble, K., deBernardis, P., deTroia, G., Farese, P., Ganga, K. M., Giacometti, M., Haynes, C. V., Hivon, E., Hristov, V. V., Iacoangeli, A., Jones, W. C., Lange, A. E., Martinis, L., Masi, S., Mason, P. V., Mauskopf, P. D., Miglio, L., Montroy, T., Netterfield, C. B., Paine, C. G., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Pongetti, F., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J. E., Scaramuzzi, F., Sforna, D., Turner, A. D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2002
• Subjects: Astrophysics astro-ph; FOS Physical sciences; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0206254; https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206254

We describe BOOMERANG; a balloon-borne microwave telescope designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at a resolution of 10' from the Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform. The millimeter-wave receiver employs new technology in bolometers, readout electronics, cold re-imaging optics,...