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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BICEP | - | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization | - | future | - | - | - | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| SPT | - | South Pole Telescope | - | future | - | - | - | Bolometer | - | Ground |
| CG | - | Cosmological Gene |
1999-date |
continues | 100 | 1000 | 0.6 to 32 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| ATCA | - | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
1991-1997 |
completed | 3350 | 6050 | 8.7 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| Tenerife | - | N/A |
1984-2000 |
completed | 13 | 30 | 10, 15, 33 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| AMI | - | Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager | - | future | - | - | 12-18 | Interferometer | No | Ground |
| CAT | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope |
1994-1997 |
completed | 339 | 722 | 13-17 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| ACME/ HACME | - | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ACME |
1988-1996 |
completed | 10 | 180 | 26-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| VSA | Power Spectra | Very Small Array |
2002 |
continues | 130 | 1800 | 26-36 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| DASI | - | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
1999-date |
continues | 200 | 900 | 26-36,in 10 bands | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| CBI | Power Spectra | Cosmic Background Imager |
2002-date |
continues | 300 | 3000 | 26-36,in 10 channels | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| POLAR | - | Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions |
2000 |
continues | 2 | 30 | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| SK | - | Saskatoon |
1993-1995 |
completed | 52 | 401 | 26-46 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| MAT | - | Mobile Anisotropy Telescope |
1997, 1998 |
completed | 30 | 1100 | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Ground |
| QMAP | Sky Maps | N/A |
1996 |
completed | 30 | 850 | 30-140 | HEMT/SIS | No | Balloon |
| Python | - | N/A |
1992-1997 |
completed | 55 | 240 | 30-90 | Bolometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| AMiBA | - | Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy | - | future | - | - | 90 | - | Yes | Ground |
| MBI-B | - | Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer | - | future | - | - | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| PIQUE | - | Princeton I, Q, and U Experiment |
2002 |
completed | 69 | 362 | 90 | Bolometer | Yes | Ballon |
| CAPMAP | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper |
2002-date |
continues | 500 | 1500 | 90 and 40 | MMIC/ HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| BOOMERanG | - | Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics |
1997-date |
continues | 25 | 1025 | 90-420 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| QMASK | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 | |
| Polatron | - | N/A | - | future | 200 | 2000 | 100 | Bolometer | 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 |
| APACHE | - | Antarctic Plateau Anisotropy CHasing Experiment |
1995-1996 |
completed | - | - | 100, 150, 250 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| BAM | - | Balloon- borne Anisotropy Measurement |
1995 |
completed | 30 | 100 | 110-250 | Liquid-helium cooled, Fourier transform spectrometer | No | Balloon |
| KUPID | - | KU-band Polarization IDentifier |
2003-date |
continues | 100 | 600 | 12-18 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| Archeops | Power Spectra | N/A |
1999-2002 |
completed | 10 | 700 | 143, 217, 353, 545 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| ACT | - | Atacama Cosmology Telescope | - | future | - | - | 145, 225, 265 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| MINT | - | Millimeter INTerferometer | - | future | 1000 | 3000 | 150 | SIS | No | Ground |
| APEX | - | Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment | - | future | - | - | 150, 217 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| ACBAR | Power Spectra | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
2001-date |
continues | 60 | 2700 | 150, 219, 274 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
| MAXIMA | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array |
1995, 1998, 1999 |
completed | 50 | 700 | 150-420 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| EBEX | - | The E and B Experiment | - | future | 25 | 1000 | 150-450 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| ARGO | - | N/A |
1988, 1990, 1993 |
completed | 53 | 180 | 150-600 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| MSAM | Power Spectra | Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement |
1992-1997 |
completed | 69 | 362 | 150-650 | Bolometer | No | Ballon |
| TopHat | - | N/A |
2002-date |
continues | 10 | 700 | 150-720 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| FIRS | - | Far Infra- Red Survey |
1989 |
completed | 3 | 29 | 170-680 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| BEAST | - | Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope |
2000-date |
continues | 10 | 1000 | 25-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Balloon, Ground |
| BaR-SPOrt | - | Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations | - | future | 100 | 1000 | 32, 90 | Polarizer/OMT | Yes | Balloon |
| QUIET | - | QU Imaging ExperimenT | - | future | 60 | 3500 | 40, 90 | HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| BIMA | - | Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations |
1986-2004 |
completed | - | - | 70-116, and 210-270 | SIS | - | Ground |
| POLARBeaR | - | POLARization of Background microwave Radiation | - | future | 50 | 2000 | 90-240 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Clover | - | N/A | - | future | 20 | 1000 | 97, 150 and 230 | 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 | ||||||||||
| SZA | - | Sunyaev- Zeldovich Array | - | future | - | - | 26-36 and 85-115 | Interferometer | No | Ground |
| SuZIE | - | Sunyaev- Zeldovich Infrared Experiment |
1996-date |
continues | 1000 | 3700 | 150, 220, 350 | Bolometer | No | Ground |
