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The TopHat Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Robert F. Silverberg  and
The TopHat Collaboration
Robert F. Silverberg
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
The TopHat Collaboration
Affiliation:
Enrico Fermi Institute, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Danish Space Research Institute, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract

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We have developed a balloon-borne experiment to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation anisotropy on angular scales from ˜50° down to ˜20′. The instrument observes at frequencies between 150 and 690 GHz and will be flown on an Antarctic circumpolar long duration flight. To greatly improve the experiment performance, the front-end of the experiment is mounted on the top of the balloon. With high sensitivity, broad sky coverage, and well-characterized systematic errors, the results of this experiment can be used to strongly constrain cosmological models and probe the early stages of large-scale structure formation in the Universe.

Type
Part III: Primordial CMB Observations: Balloon and Satellite based
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 201: New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters , 2005 , pp. 65 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2005 

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