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Polenta, G., Ade, Peter A. R; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Balbi, A., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C. R., Crill, B. P., de Bernardis, P., De Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., di Stefano, G., Ganga, K., Hivon, E., Hristov, V. V., Iacoangeli, A., Jaffe, A. H., Kisner, T. S., Jones, W. C., Lange, A. E., MacTavish, C., Bettolo, C. M., Masi, S., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C .B., Pascale, Enzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-8154, Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J .E., Torbet, E., Tegmark, M. and Vittorio, N. 2005. BOOMERanG results. Advances in Space Research 36 (6) , pp. 1064-1069. 10.1016/j.asr.2005.06.080

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Abstract

The BOOMERanG experiment has mapped the mm/sub-mm sky during two long duration balloon flights from Antarctica, in 1998 and 2003. The first flight observed about 4% of the sky, measuring its brightness at 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz with resolution of 12′. The faint structure of the Cosmic Microwave Background at horizon and sub-horizon scales is evident in these maps, and the wide frequency coverage allows for a careful estimate of the Galactic foreground. In the second flight a polarization-sensitive version of the instrument has been flown, to measure the linear polarization of the microwave sky at 145, 245 and 345 GHz. In this paper we review the main results from the first flight and report preliminary results obtained in the second flight.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords: Microwave background; Telescope; Stratospheric balloon
Publisher: Pergamon
ISSN: 0273-1177
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 10:13
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/39498

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