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

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
• Main Authors: Crill, B. P., Ade, Peter A. R., Artusa, D. A., Bhatia, R. S., Bock, J. J., Boscaleri, A., Cardoni, P., Church, S. E., Coble, K., de Bernardis, P., de Troia, 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, M., Montroy, T., Netterfield, C. B., Paine, C. G., Pascale, Enzo, Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Pongetti, F., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J. E., Scaramuzzi, F., Sforna, D., Turner, A. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: QC Physics; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/1598/; https://doi.org/10.1086/376894

We describe BOOMERANG, a balloon-borne microwave telescope designed to map the cosmic microwave background at a resolution of 10' from the Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform. The millimeter-wave receiver employs new technology in bolometers, readout electronics, cold reimaging optics, millime...