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MAXIMA: an experiment to measure temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background

Lee, A. T., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Balbi, A., Bock, J., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Crill, B. P., De Bernardis, P., Del Castillo, H., Ferreira, P., Ganga, K., Hanany, S., Hristov, V., Jaffe, A. H., Lange, A. E., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Netterfield, C. B., Oh, S., Pascale, Enzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-8154, Rabii, B., Richards, P. L., Ruhl, J., Smoot, G. F. and Winant, C. D. 1999. MAXIMA: an experiment to measure temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. Presented at: 3 K cosmology : EC-TMR Conference, Rome, Italy, October, 1998. Published in: Maiani, Luciano, Melchiorri, Francesco and Vittorio, Nicola eds. 3 K cosmology : EC-TMR Conference : Rome, Italy, October, 1998. AIP conference proceedings (476) Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, pp. 224-236. 10.1063/1.59349

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Abstract

We describe the MAXIMA experiment, a balloon-borne measurement designed to map temperature anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from l=80 to l=800. The experiment consists of a 1.3 m diameter off-axis Gregorian telescope and a receiver with a 16 element array of bolometers cooled to 100 mK. The frequency bands are centered at 150, 240, and 410 GHz. The 10′ FWHM beam sizes are well matched to the scale of acoustic peaks expected in the angular power spectrum of the CMB. The first flight of the experiment in its full configuration was launched in August 1998. A 122 deg2 map of the sky was made near the Draco constellation during the 7 hour flight in a region of extremely low galactic dust contamination. This map covers 0.3% of the sky and has 3200 independent beamsize pixels. We describe the MAXIMA instrument and its performance during the recent flight.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
ISBN: 1563968479
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 08:22
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/62089

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