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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACME/ HACME | - | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ACME |
1988-1996 |
completed | 10 | 180 | 26-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | 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 |
| 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 |
| BOOMERanG | - | Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics |
1997-date |
continues | 25 | 1025 | 90-420 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| CAT | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope |
1994-1997 |
completed | 339 | 722 | 13-17 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| CG | - | Cosmological Gene |
1999-date |
continues | 100 | 1000 | 0.6 to 32 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| DASI | - | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
1999-date |
continues | 200 | 900 | 26-36,in 10 bands | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| FIRS | - | Far Infra- Red Survey |
1989 |
completed | 3 | 29 | 170-680 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| MAT | - | Mobile Anisotropy Telescope |
1997, 1998 |
completed | 30 | 1100 | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Ground |
| MBI-B | - | Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer | - | future | - | - | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| MINT | - | Millimeter INTerferometer | - | future | 1000 | 3000 | 150 | SIS | No | Ground |
| 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 |
| Polatron | - | N/A | - | future | 200 | 2000 | 100 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Python | - | N/A |
1992-1997 |
completed | 55 | 240 | 30-90 | Bolometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| SK | - | Saskatoon |
1993-1995 |
completed | 52 | 401 | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | 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 |
| BEAST | - | Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope |
2000-date |
continues | 10 | 1000 | 25-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Balloon, Ground |
| CAPMAP | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper |
2002-date |
continues | 500 | 1500 | 90 and 40 | MMIC/ HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| AMI | - | Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager | - | future | - | - | 12-18 | Interferometer | No | Ground |
| APEX | - | Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment | - | future | - | - | 150, 217 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| BICEP | - | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization | - | future | - | - | - | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| SPT | - | South Pole Telescope | - | future | - | - | - | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| 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 |
| BaR-SPOrt | - | Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations | - | future | 100 | 1000 | 32, 90 | Polarizer/OMT | Yes | Balloon |
| EBEX | - | The E and B Experiment | - | future | 25 | 1000 | 150-450 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| BIMA | - | Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations |
1986-2004 |
completed | - | - | 70-116, and 210-270 | SIS | - | Ground |
| Clover | - | N/A | - | future | 20 | 1000 | 97, 150 and 230 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| QUIET | - | QU Imaging ExperimenT | - | future | 60 | 3500 | 40, 90 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| KUPID | - | KU-band Polarization IDentifier |
2003-date |
continues | 100 | 600 | 12-18 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| POLARBeaR | - | POLARization of Background microwave Radiation | - | future | 50 | 2000 | 90-240 | 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 | |
| ACT | - | Atacama Cosmology Telescope | - | future | - | - | 145, 225, 265 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| ACBAR | Power Spectra | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
2001-date |
continues | 60 | 2700 | 150, 219, 274 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| Archeops | Power Spectra | N/A |
1999-2002 |
completed | 10 | 700 | 143, 217, 353, 545 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| CBI | Power Spectra | Cosmic Background Imager |
2002-date |
continues | 300 | 3000 | 26-36,in 10 channels | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| MSAM | Power Spectra | Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement |
1992-1997 |
completed | 69 | 362 | 150-650 | Bolometer | No | Ballon |
| VSA | Power Spectra | Very Small Array |
2002 |
continues | 130 | 1800 | 26-36 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| MAXIMA | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array |
1995, 1998, 1999 |
completed | 50 | 700 | 150-420 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| QMASK | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| QMAP | Sky Maps | N/A |
1996 |
completed | 30 | 850 | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Balloon |
| 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 |
