The BOOMERANG North America instrument: A balloon-borne bolometric radiometer optimized for measurements of cosmic background radiation anisotropies from 0.3 degrees to 4 degrees

Piacentini, F., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Bhatia, R. S., Bock, J. J., Boscaleri, A., Cardoni, P., Crill, B. P., de Bernardis, P., Del Castillo, H., De Troia, G., Farese, P., Giacometti, M., Hivon, E. F., Hristov, V. V., Iacoangeli, A., Lange, A. E., Masi, S., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Miglio, L., Netterfield, C. B., Palangio, P., Pascale, E., Raccanelli, A., Rao, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J. and Scaramuzzi, F. 2002. The BOOMERANG North America instrument: A balloon-borne bolometric radiometer optimized for measurements of cosmic background radiation anisotropies from 0.3 degrees to 4 degrees. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 138 (2) , pp. 315-336. 10.1086/324265

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Abstract

We describe the BOOMERANG North America instrument, a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer designed to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with 0.3degrees resolution over a significant portion of the sky. This receiver employs new technologies in bolometers, readout electronics, millimeter-wave optics and filters, cryogenics, scan, and attitude reconstruction. All these subsystems are described in detail in this paper. The system has been fully calibrated in flight using a variety of techniques, which are described and compared. Using this system, we have obtained a measurement of the first peak in the CMB angular power spectrum in a single, few hour long balloon flight. The instrument described here was a prototype of the BOOMERANG Long Duration Balloon experiment.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	balloons,cosmicmicrowave background, cosmology: observations, instrumentation: photometers
Publisher:	IOP Science
ISSN:	0067-0049
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/43039

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