MAXIMA: A Balloon-Borne Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment
Abstract
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
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0309414,
title = {MAXIMA: A Balloon-Borne Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment},
author = {B. Rabii and C. D. Winant and M. E. Abroe and P. Ade and A. Balbi and J. J. Bock and J. Borrill and A. Boscaleri and P. de Bernardis and J. S. Collins and P. G. Ferreira and S. Hanany and V. V. Hristov and A. H. Jaffe and B. R. Johnson and A. E. Lange and A. T. Lee and C. B. Netterfield and E. Pascale and P. L. Richards and G. F. Smoot and R. Stompor and J. H. P. Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0309414},
year = {2015}
}
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22 pages, 22 figures, 13 tables. Submitted to ApJ. More information and figures are available for download at http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/maxima/