AMiBA: Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy

K. Y. Lo; T. H. Chiueh; R. N. Martin; Kin-Wang Ng; H. Liang; Ue-li Pen; Chung-Pei Ma

AMiBA: Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Authors: K. Y. Lo , T. H. Chiueh , R. N. Martin , Kin-Wang Ng , H. Liang , Ue-li Pen , Chung-Pei Ma

Abstract

As part of a 4-year Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA) Research Excellence Initiative in Taiwan, AMiBA $-$ a 19-element dual-channel 85-105 GHz interferometer array is being specifically built to search for high redshift clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect (SZE). In addition, AMiBA will have full polarization capabilities, in order to probe the polarization properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background. AMiBA, to be sited on Mauna Kea in Hawaii or in Chile, will reach a sensitivity of $\sim 1$ mJy or 7 $\mu$ K in 1 hour. The project involves extensive international scientific and technical collaborations. The construction of AMiBA is scheduled to starting operating in early 2004.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012282,
  title  = {AMiBA: Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy},
  author = {K. Y. Lo and T. H. Chiueh and R. N. Martin and Kin-Wang Ng and H. Liang and Ue-li Pen and Chung-Pei Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012282},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Contribution to IAU Symposium 201, `New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters', eds. A Lasenby and A Wilkinson; 6 pages including 2 figures. Also available form the AMiBA website at http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/amiba/papers/iauamiba.tar.gz. Minor corrections in texts

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