LAMBDA News
CMB Experiments
| Space Based | |||
| Experiment | Description | Year | Data Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| COBE | COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe. | 1989-1993 | DATA |
| Planck | Planck is the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESA's Horizon 2000 Scientific Program. The basic scientific goal of the Planck mission is to measure CMB anisotropies at all angular scales larger than 5 to 10 arcminutes over the entire sky with a precision of ~2 parts per million. | 2010-Present | N/A |
| Relikt | Relikt-1 on Prognoz 9 mapped the sky at 37 GHz with an angular resolution of 5.5 degrees and a temperature resolution of 0.2 mK. | 1983-1984 | N/A |
| SPOrt | SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a planned International Space Station experiment, initended to measure the sky polarization in the frequency range 20-90 GHz. | Future | N/A |
| WMAP | WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was designed to determine the geometry, content, and evolution of the universe via a 13 arcminute FWHM resolution full sky map of the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. | 2001-2010 | DATA |
| CMB Anisotropy Experiments | ||||||||
| Links to Project Website | Data At LAMBDA |
Full Name |
Year | Status | Frequ- ency (GHz) |
Detectors | Polariz- ation Values |
Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACBAR | Power Spectra | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
2001-2008 |
continues | 150, 219, 274 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| ACME/ HACME | - | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ACME |
1988-1996 |
completed | 26-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| ACT | INFO | Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
2008-date |
continues | 148, 218, 277 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| AMI | Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager |
2005-date |
continues | 12-18 | Interferometer | No | Ground | |
| AMiBA | - | Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy |
2007-date |
continues | 90 | - | Yes | Ground |
| APACHE | - | Antarctic Plateau Anisotropy CHasing Experiment |
1995-1996 |
completed | 100, 150, 250 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| Archeops | Power Spectra | N/A |
1999-2002 |
completed | 143, 217, 353, 545 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| ARGO | - | N/A |
1988, 1990, 1993 |
completed | 150-600 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| ATCA | - | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
1991-1997 |
completed | 8.7 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| BAM | - | Balloon- borne Anisotropy Measurement |
1995 |
completed | 110-250 | Liquid-helium cooled, Fourier transform spectrometer | No | Balloon |
| BaR-SPOrt | - | Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations | - | cancelled | 32, 90 | Polarizer/OMT | Yes | Balloon |
| BEAST | - | Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope |
2000-date |
continues | 25-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Balloon, Ground |
| BICEP | - | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization |
2005-2008 |
completed | 100, 150, 220 | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| BIMA | - | Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations |
1986-2004 |
completed | 70-116, and 210-270 | SIS | - | Ground |
| BOOMERanG | - | Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics |
1997-2003 |
completed | 90-420 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| CAPMAP | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper |
2002-2008 |
continues | 90 and 40 | MMIC/ HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| CAT | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope |
1994-1997 |
completed | 13-17 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CBI | Power Spectra | Cosmic Background Imager |
2002-2008 |
continues | 26-36,in 10 channels | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CG | - | Cosmological Gene |
1997-date |
continues | 0.6 to 32 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| Clover | - | N/A | - | cancelled | 97, 150 and 230 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| COSMOSOMAS | - | The experiment consists in two twin instruments (COSMO11 and COSMO15).One OF them (COSMO11) permits TO measure polarization. |
1998-date |
Continues | 10-18 | HEMT | Ground | |
| DASI | - | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
2001-2003 |
completed | 26-36,in 10 bands | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| EBEX | - | The E and B Experiment | - | future | 150-450 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| FIRS | - | Far Infra- Red Survey |
1989 |
completed | 170-680 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| KUPID | - | KU-band Polarization IDentifier |
2003-date |
continues | 12-18 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| MAT | - | Mobile Anisotropy Telescope |
1997, 1998 |
completed | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Ground |
| MAXIMA | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array |
1995, 1998, 1999 |
completed | 150-420 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| MBI-B | - | Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer | - | future | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| MINT | - | Millimeter INTerferometer | - | future | 150 | SIS | No | Ground |
| MSAM | Power Spectra | Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement |
1992-1997 |
completed | 150-650 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| PIQUE | - | Princeton I, Q, and U Experiment |
2002 |
completed | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| POLAR | - | Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions |
2000 |
continues | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| POLARBeaR | - | POLARization of Background microwave Radiation |
2012-date |
future | 90-240 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Polatron | - | N/A | - | cancelled | 100 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Python | - | N/A |
1992-1997 |
completed | 30-90 | Bolometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| QMAP | Sky Maps | N/A |
1996 |
completed | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Balloon |
| QMASK | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination |
1993-1996 |
completed | 26-46 | HEMT,HEMT/SIS | - | - |
| QUaD | DATA | Quest (Q and U Extra-Galactic Sub-mm Telescope) at DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferomete) |
2005-2010 |
completed | 100, 150 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| QUIET | - | QU Imaging ExperimenT |
2008-2010 |
future | 40, 90 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| SK | - | Saskatoon |
1993-1995 |
completed | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| SPT | INFO | South Pole Telescope |
2007-date |
continues | - | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| Tenerife | - | N/A |
1984-2000 |
completed | 10, 15, 33 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| TopHat | - | N/A |
2002-2004 |
completed | 150-720 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| VSA | Power Spectra | Very Small Array |
2002-2004 |
completed | 26-36 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CMB Spectrum Experiments | ||||||||
| ARCADE | Sky Maps | Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission |
2001-2006 |
continues | 3, 5, 7, 10, 30, 90 | HEMT | No | Balloon |
| Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Experiments | ||||||||
| APEX-SZ | - | Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment |
2007-date |
continues | 150, 217 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| MUSTANG | MUltiplexed Squid/Tes Array for Ninety Gigahertz |
2007-date |
continues | 90 | Bolometer | no | Ground | |
| MUSTANG2 | MUltiplexed Squid/Tes Array for Ninety Gigahertz 2 | - | future | 90 | Bolometer | No | Ground | |
| SuZIE | - | Sunyaev- Zeldovich Infrared Experiment |
1996-date |
continues | 150, 220, 350 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| SZA | - | Sunyaev- Zeldovich Array |
2004-date |
continues | 26-36 and 85-115 | Interferometer | No | Ground |
