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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMiBA | - | Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy | - | future | - | - | 90 | - | Yes | Ground |
| QMASK | Power Spectra and Sky Maps | QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ACBAR | Power Spectra | Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver |
2001-date |
continues | 60 | 2700 | 150, 219, 274 | Bolometer | 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 |
| BOOMERanG | - | Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics |
1997-date |
continues | 25 | 1025 | 90-420 | Bolometer | Yes | Balloon |
| FIRS | - | Far Infra- Red Survey |
1989 |
completed | 3 | 29 | 170-680 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Polatron | - | N/A | - | future | 200 | 2000 | 100 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| TopHat | - | N/A |
2002-date |
continues | 10 | 700 | 150-720 | Bolometer | No | Balloon |
| ACT | - | Atacama Cosmology Telescope | - | future | - | - | 145, 225, 265 | Bolometer | 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 |
| 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 |
| POLARBeaR | - | POLARization of Background microwave Radiation | - | future | 50 | 2000 | 90-240 | Bolometer | Yes | Ground |
| Python | - | N/A |
1992-1997 |
completed | 55 | 240 | 30-90 | Bolometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| ACME/ HACME | - | Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ACME |
1988-1996 |
completed | 10 | 180 | 26-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Ground |
| ATCA | - | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
1991-1997 |
completed | 3350 | 6050 | 8.7 | 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 |
| 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 |
| BEAST | - | Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope |
2000-date |
continues | 10 | 1000 | 25-35 and 38-45 | HEMT | No | Balloon, 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| CBI | Power Spectra | Cosmic Background Imager |
2002-date |
continues | 300 | 3000 | 26-36,in 10 channels | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| VSA | Power Spectra | Very Small Array |
2002 |
continues | 130 | 1800 | 26-36 | Interferometer/ HEMT | No | Ground |
| BAM | - | Balloon- borne Anisotropy Measurement |
1995 |
completed | 30 | 100 | 110-250 | Liquid-helium cooled, Fourier transform spectrometer | No | Balloon |
| CAPMAP | - | Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper |
2002-date |
continues | 500 | 1500 | 90 and 40 | MMIC/ HEMT | Yes | Ground |
| BaR-SPOrt | - | Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations | - | future | 100 | 1000 | 32, 90 | Polarizer/OMT | Yes | Balloon |
| MINT | - | Millimeter INTerferometer | - | future | 1000 | 3000 | 150 | SIS | No | Ground |
| BIMA | - | Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations |
1986-2004 |
completed | - | - | 70-116, and 210-270 | SIS | - | 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 |
