Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-15
Rev.Sci.Instrum. 77 (2006) 071101
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 pages, 22 figures, 13 tables. Submitted to ApJ. More information and figures are available for download at http://cosmolo
Scientific paper
We describe the Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on angular scales of 10' to 5 degrees . MAXIMA mapped the CMB using 16 bolometric detectors in spectral bands centered at 150 GHz, 240 GHz, and 410 GHz, with 10' resolution at all frequencies. The combined receiver sensitivity to CMB anisotropy was ~40 microK/rt(sec). Systematic parasitic contributions were minimized by using four uncorrelated spatial modulations, thorough crosslinking, multiple independent CMB observations, heavily baffled optics, and strong spectral discrimination. Pointing reconstruction was accurate to 1', and absolute calibration was better than 4%. Two MAXIMA flights with more than 8.5 hours of CMB observations have mapped a total of 300 deg^2 of the sky in regions of negligible known foreground emission. MAXIMA results have been released in previous publications. MAXIMA maps, power spectra and correlation matrices are publicly available at http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/maxima
Abroe Matthew Edmund
Ade Peter
Balbi Amedeo
Bock James Joseph
Borrill Julian
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