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Measurement of a peak in the cosmic microwave background power spectrum from the North American test flight of Boomerang

Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, de Bernardis, P., Bock, J. J., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Crill, B. P., DeGasperis, G., De Troia, G., Farese, P., Ferreira, P. G., Ganga, K., Giacometti, M., Hanany, S., Hristov, V. V., Iacoangeli, A., Jaffe, A. H., Lange, A. E., Lee, A. T., Masi, S., Melchiorri, A., Melchiorri, F., Miglio, L., Montroy, T., Netterfield, C. B., Pascale, Enzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-8154, Piacentini, F., Richards, P. L., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J. E., Scannapieco, E., Scaramuzzi, F., Stompor, R. and Vittorio, N. 2000. Measurement of a peak in the cosmic microwave background power spectrum from the North American test flight of Boomerang. Astrophysical Journal Letters 536 (2) , L59. 10.1086/312743

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Abstract

We describe a measurement of the angular power spectrum of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at scales of 0fdg3 to 5° from the North American test flight of the Boomerang experiment. Boomerang is a balloon-borne telescope with a bolometric receiver designed to map CMB anisotropies on a long-duration balloon flight. During a 6 hr test flight of a prototype system in 1997, we mapped more than 200 deg2 at high Galactic latitudes in two bands centered at 90 and 150 GHz with a resolution of 26' and 16farcm5 FWHM, respectively. Analysis of the maps gives a power spectrum with a peak at angular scales of 1° with an amplitude 70 μKCMB.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords: balloons; cosmic microwave background; cosmology: observations; instrumentation: photometers; methods: data analysis; telescopes
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISSN: 0004-637X
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 11:12
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47258

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