South Pole submillimeter isotropy measurements of the cosmic microwave background

Conference · Mon Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1990 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA)

OSTI ID:6691532

Dragovan, M ^[1]; Platt, S R; Pernic, R J ^[2]; Stark, A A ^[3]

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1. Joseph Henry Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (USA)
2. The University of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI 531191 (USA)
3. AT T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ 07733 (USA)

Observations were made from the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the austral summer of 1988--89 to search for spatial anisotropy in the submillimeter Cosmic Microwave Background. Three 30{prime}{times}30{prime} regions of the sky were observed at 350 {mu}m, 450 {mu}m, and 600 {mu}m with the University of Chicago 32-Channel Submillimeter Photometer and a 1.2-meter off-axis parabolic telescope, designed and constructed at AT T Bell Laboratories. Reimaging optics gave each of the 32 bolometers in the array a 5-arc minute field of view. The search is sensitive to fluctuations on all angular scales between 5- and 30-arc minutes.

• OSTI ID: 6691532
• Report Number(s): CONF-8906234-; CODEN: APCPC; TRN: 90-025468
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA), Vol. 198:1; Conference: Workshop on astrophysics in Antarctica, Newark, DE (USA), 8-10 Jun 1989; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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