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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QMASK | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ACME/ HACME | - | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ACME |
1988-1996 |
completed | 10 | 180 | 26-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| APACHE | - | Antarctic Plateau Anisotropy CHasing Experiment |
1995-1996 |
completed | - | - | 100, 150, 250 | 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 |
| CAT | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope |
1994-1997 |
completed | 339 | 722 | 13-17 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | 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 |
| MAXIMA | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array |
1995, 1998, 1999 |
completed | 50 | 700 | 150-420 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| BIMA | - | Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations |
1986-2004 |
completed | - | - | 70-116, and 210-270 | SIS | - | Ground |
| ACBAR | Power Spectra | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
2001-date |
continues | 60 | 2700 | 150, 219, 274 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| BOOMERanG | - | Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics |
1997-date |
continues | 25 | 1025 | 90-420 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| 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 |
| DASI | - | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
1999-date |
continues | 200 | 900 | 26-36,in 10 bands | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| POLAR | - | Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions |
2000 |
continues | 2 | 30 | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| KUPID | - | KU-band Polarization IDentifier |
2003-date |
continues | 100 | 600 | 12-18 | HEMT | 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 | |
| AMiBA | - | Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy | - | future | - | - | 90 | - | Yes | Ground |
| MBI-B | - | Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer | - | future | - | - | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| MINT | - | Millimeter INTerferometer | - | future | 1000 | 3000 | 150 | SIS | No | Ground |
| Polatron | - | N/A | - | future | 200 | 2000 | 100 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| ACT | - | Atacama Cosmology Telescope | - | future | - | - | 145, 225, 265 | Bolometer | No | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| POLARBeaR | - | POLARization of Background microwave Radiation | - | future | 50 | 2000 | 90-240 | Bolometer | Yes | 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 |
