LAMBDA News
Suborbital Experiments
The left-most colum contains links to the individual project websites, which will typically provide the most comprehensive collections of data. The second column contains links to project data held at LAMBDA. Initially the data at LAMBDA might be a subset of the data at the project website, but the LAMBDA holdings will grow with time and they will be maintained as a permanent archive.
| CMB Anisotropy Experiments | ||||||||||
| Links to Project Website | Data At LAMBDA |
Full Name |
Year | Status | l-min | l-max | Frequ- ency (GHz) |
Detectors | Polariz- ation Values |
Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACBAR | Power Spectra | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
2001-date |
continues | 60 | 2700 | 150, 219, 274 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| ACME/ HACME | - | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ACME |
1988-1996 |
completed | 10 | 180 | 26-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| ACT | - | Atacama Cosmology Telescope | - | future | - | - | 145, 225, 265 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| AMI | - | Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager | - | future | - | - | 12-18 | Interferometer | No | Ground |
| AMiBA | - | Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy | - | future | - | - | 90 | - | Yes | Ground |
| APACHE | - | Antarctic Plateau Anisotropy CHasing Experiment |
1995-1996 |
completed | - | - | 100, 150, 250 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| APEX | - | Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment | - | future | - | - | 150, 217 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| Archeops | Power Spectra | N/A |
1999-2002 |
completed | 10 | 700 | 143, 217, 353, 545 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| ARGO | - | N/A |
1988, 1990, 1993 |
completed | 53 | 180 | 150-600 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| ATCA | - | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
1991-1997 |
completed | 3350 | 6050 | 8.7 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| BAM | - | Balloon- borne Anisotropy Measurement |
1995 |
completed | 30 | 100 | 110-250 | Liquid-helium cooled, Fourier transform spectrometer | No | Balloon |
| BaR-SPOrt | - | Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations | - | future | 100 | 1000 | 32, 90 | Polarizer/OMT | Yes | Balloon |
| BEAST | - | Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope |
2000-date |
continues | 10 | 1000 | 25-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Balloon, Ground |
| BICEP | - | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization | - | future | - | - | - | 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-date |
continues | 25 | 1025 | 90-420 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| CAPMAP | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper |
2002-date |
continues | 500 | 1500 | 90 and 40 | MMIC/ HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| CAT | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope |
1994-1997 |
completed | 339 | 722 | 13-17 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CBI | Power Spectra | Cosmic Background Imager |
2002-date |
continues | 300 | 3000 | 26-36,in 10 channels | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CG | - | Cosmological Gene |
1999-date |
continues | 100 | 1000 | 0.6 to 32 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| Clover | - | N/A | - | future | 20 | 1000 | 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 | 200 | 10-18 | HEMT | Ground | |
| DASI | - | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
1999-date |
continues | 200 | 900 | 26-36,in 10 bands | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| EBEX | - | The E and B Experiment | - | future | 25 | 1000 | 150-450 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| FIRS | - | Far Infra- Red Survey |
1989 |
completed | 3 | 29 | 170-680 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| KUPID | - | KU-band Polarization IDentifier |
2003-date |
continues | 100 | 600 | 12-18 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| MAT | - | Mobile Anisotropy Telescope |
1997, 1998 |
completed | 30 | 1100 | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Ground |
| MAXIMA | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array |
1995, 1998, 1999 |
completed | 50 | 700 | 150-420 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| MBI-B | - | Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer | - | future | - | - | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| MINT | - | Millimeter INTerferometer | - | future | 1000 | 3000 | 150 | SIS | No | Ground |
| MSAM | Power Spectra | Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement |
1992-1997 |
completed | 69 | 362 | 150-650 | Bolometer | No | Ballon |
| PIQUE | - | Princeton I, Q, and U Experiment |
2002 |
completed | 69 | 362 | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ballon |
| POLAR | - | Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions |
2000 |
continues | 2 | 30 | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| POLARBeaR | - | POLARization of Background microwave Radiation | - | future | 50 | 2000 | 90-240 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Polatron | - | N/A | - | future | 200 | 2000 | 100 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Python | - | N/A |
1992-1997 |
completed | 55 | 240 | 30-90 | Bolometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| QMAP | Sky Maps | N/A |
1996 |
completed | 30 | 850 | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Balloon |
| QMASK | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| QuaD | - | Quest (Q and U Extra-Galactic Sub-mm Telescope) at DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferomete) |
2005-date |
continues | n/a | n/a | 100, 150 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| QUIET | - | QU Imaging ExperimenT | - | future | 60 | 3500 | 40, 90 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| SK | - | Saskatoon |
1993-1995 |
completed | 52 | 401 | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| SPT | - | South Pole Telescope | - | future | - | - | - | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| Tenerife | - | N/A |
1984-2000 |
completed | 13 | 30 | 10, 15, 33 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| TopHat | - | N/A |
2002-date |
continues | 10 | 700 | 150-720 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| VSA | Power Spectra | Very Small Array |
2002 |
continues | 130 | 1800 | 26-36 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CMB Spectrum Experiments | ||||||||||
| ARCADE | - | Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission |
2001-date |
continues | n/a | n/a | 3, 5, 7, 10, 30, 90 | HEMT | No | Balloon |
| Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Experiments | ||||||||||
| SuZIE | - | Sunyaev- Zeldovich Infrared Experiment |
1996-date |
continues | 1000 | 3700 | 150, 220, 350 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| SZA | - | Sunyaev- Zeldovich Array | - | future | - | - | 26-36 and 85-115 | Interferometer | No | Ground |
