BOOMERanG: balloon observations of millimetric extragalactic radiation and geophysics

The BOOMERanG experiment is an international effort to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background(CMB) anisotropy at an angular resolution of 12÷20 arcmin, with unprecedented sensitivity, sky and spectral coverage. The telescope will be flown from Antarctica by NASA-NSBF with a long duration stratosphe...

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Main Authors: de Bernardis, P., Ade, Peter A. R., Aquilini, E., Bock, J., Boscaleri, A., Cardoni, P., Ganga, K., Giacometti, M., Griffin, Matthew, Hanany, S., Hristov, V., Lange, A., Lee, A., Martinis, L., Masi, S., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel, Melchiorri, F., Palangio, P., Pascale, Enzo, Raccanelli, A., Richards, P., Romeo, G., Scaramuzzi, F., Sforna, D.
Other Authors: Bouchet, François R.
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: Editions Frontieres 1997
Subjects:
QB Astronomy
Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/70825/
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Summary:The BOOMERanG experiment is an international effort to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background(CMB) anisotropy at an angular resolution of 12÷20 arcmin, with unprecedented sensitivity, sky and spectral coverage. The telescope will be flown from Antarctica by NASA-NSBF with a long duration stratospheric balloon (7 - 14 days), and is presently scheduled for a test flight in 1996 and an Antarctic flight in 1997. The experiment is designed to measure the power spectrum of the CMB anisotropies up to l ≡ 700 and to produce an image of the CMB sky with high sensitivity and angular resolution. It will be an important precursor of future space-borne missions, producing crucial cosmological data and testing new technologies which are essential to the design of a CMB mapping satellite experiment.

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