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Measurement of a Peak in the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum from the North American test flight of BOOMERANG

Authors :
Alessandro Melchiorri
Evan Scannapieco
A. Boscaleri
T. E. Montroy
K. Ganga
F. Piacentini
Peter A. R. Ade
Shaul Hanany
Silvia Masi
J. E. Ruhl
F. Scaramuzzi
P. C. Farese
Pedro G. Ferreira
Julian Borrill
B. P. Crill
Enzo Pascale
Paul L. Richards
Nicola Vittorio
A. H. Jaffe
P. de Bernardis
A. Iacoangeli
James J. Bock
F. Melchiorri
Philip Daniel Mauskopf
G. De Troia
M. Giacometti
L. Miglio
Andrew E. Lange
Adrian T. Lee
G. DeGasperis
Radek Stompor
Viktor Hristov
Giovanni Romeo
Calvin B. Netterfield
Source :
Scopus-Elsevier
Publication Year :
1999

Abstract

We describe a measurement of the angular power spectrum of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from 0.3 degrees to ~10 degrees 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-hour test flight of a prototype system in 1997, we mapped > 200 square degrees at high galactic latitudes in two bands centered at 90 and 150 GHz with a resolution of 26 and 16.6 arcmin FWHM respectively. Analysis of the maps gives a power spectrum with a peak at angular scales of ~1 degree with an amplitude ~70 uK.<br />5 pages, 1 figure LaTeX, emulateapj.sty

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Scopus-Elsevier
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....2d6da132208e191e6d8299f3661d082f