Maps of the CMB from the MAXIMA experiment

Balbi, A., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Bock, J., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., de Bernardis, P., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., Hristov, V., Jaffe, A. H., Johnson, B., Lange, A. E., Lee, A. T., 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., Smoot, G. F., Stompor, R., Winant, C. D. and Wu, J. H. P. 2001. Maps of the CMB from the MAXIMA experiment. Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana 72 (4) , pp. 849-852.

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Abstract

We present results from the first flight of the MAXIMA experiment. MAXIMA is a balloon-borne experiment optimized to map the CMB anisotropy over hundreds of square degrees with an angular resolution of 10'. The instrument consists of a Gregorian telescope with a 1.3 m primary mirror and a receiver housing a 16 element bolometer array cooled to 100 mK. Observations were made at 3 frequency bands centered on 150, 240, and 410 GHz. During the first flight MAXIMA mapped the sky over a region of 124 deg2 with 10' FWHM resolution. The resulting CMB power spectrum covers the range 36 <= l <= 785 and is consistent with the predictions of the inflationary adiabatic scenario and with a flat universe.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cosmic Microwave Background, Space Missions: Balloon-Borne.
Publisher:	Italian Astronomical Society
ISSN:	0037-8720
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 09:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/64096

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