The First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

• Main Author: Rahlin, Alexandra Sasha
• Other Authors: Jones, William C, Physics Department
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University 2016
• Subjects: cosmic microwave background; cosmology; polarization; scientific ballooning; Physics; Astrophysics; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01tm70mx65g

The CMB is an imprint of the initial conditions that were laid down early in the history of the Universe and evolved into the large scale structure that exists today. The inflationary paradigm provides an elegant mechanism for creating the observed homogeneous, isotropic and flat Universe, with stru...