The TopHat Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy experiment

被引：1
作者：
Silverberg, RF [1 ]
机构：
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astron & Solar Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[4] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[5] Danish Space Res Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
来源：
SCIENTIFIC BALLOONING | 2000年 / 26卷 / 09期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I：
10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00077-6
中图分类号：
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要：
We have developed a balloon-borne experiment to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation anisotropy on angular scales from similar to 50 degrees down to similar 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. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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页码：1401 / 1406
页数：6
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