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Measurement of a Peak in the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum from the North American test flight of BOOMERANG
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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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
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics and Astronomy
Cosmic microwave background
BOOMERanG experiment
FOS: Physical sciences
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Cosmology: Observations
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
law.invention
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Telescope
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Methods: Data Analysis
Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica
law
0103 physical sciences
Anisotropy
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Physics
Balloons
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Bolometer
Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Spectral density
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmology: Cosmic Microwave Background
Full width at half maximum
Amplitude
Space and Planetary Science
Instrumentation: Photometers
Balloons, Cosmology: Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmology: Observations, Instrumentation: Photometers, Methods: Data Analysis, Telescopes
Telescopes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2d6da132208e191e6d8299f3661d082f