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MAXIMA: A balloon-borne cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiment

Rabii, B., Winant, C. D., Collins, J. S., Lee, A. T., Richards, P. L., Abroe, M. E., Hanany, S., Johnson, B. R., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Balbi, A., Bock, J. J., Borrill, J., Stompor, R., Boscaleri, A., Pascale, Enzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-8154, de Bernardis, P., Ferreira, P. G., Hristov, V. V., Lange, A. E., Jaffe, A. H., Netterfield, C. B., Smoot, G. F. and Wu, J. H. P. 2006. MAXIMA: A balloon-borne cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiment. Review of Scientific Instruments 77 (7) , 071101-071126. 10.1063/1.2219723

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Abstract

We describe the Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment which measured the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales of 10′ to 5°. MAXIMA mapped the CMB using 16 bolometric detectors in spectral bands centered at 150, 240, and 410 GHz, with 10′ resolution at all frequencies. The combined receiver sensitivity to CMB anisotropy was ∼ 40 μKmath. The bolometric detectors, which were cooled to 100 mK, were a prototype of the detectors which will be used on the Planck Surveyor Satellite of the European Space Agency. Systematic parasitic contributions were controlled by using four uncorrelated spatial modulations, thorough cross-linking, multiple independent CMB observations, heavily baffled optics, and strong spectral discrimination. Pointing reconstruction was accurate to 1′, and absolute calibration was better than 4%. Two MAXIMA flights with more than 8.5 h of CMB observations have mapped a total of 300 deg2 of the sky in regions of negligible known foreground emission. MAXIMA results have been released in previous publications and shown to be consistent with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. MAXIMA I maps, power spectra, and correlation matrices are publicly available at http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/maxima.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords: radiofrequency cosmic radiation, astronomical instruments, imaging, bolometers
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
ISSN: 0034-6748
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 10:48
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/41387

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