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On large angular scales (greater than about 60 degrees), the two-point angular correlation function of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as measured (outside of the plane of the Galaxy) by the Wilkinson Microwave…

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We report on the characteristics and design details of the Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM), a millimeter-wave, balloon-borne telescope that has been used to observe anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR)…

Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies on large angular scales have uncovered a number of anomalous features of marginal statistical significance, such as a hemispherical power asymmetry, lack of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Juan I. Cayuso , Matthew C. Johnson

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies should yield a significant signal in cosmic microwave background(CMB) experiments at small angular scales ($\ell \ga 1000$). Experiments with sufficient frequency coverage should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilbert P. Holder , John E. Carlstrom

Astrometry at centimeter wavelengths using Very Long Baseline Interferometry is approaching accuracies of ~1 uas for the angle between a target and a calibrator source separated by <1 degree on the sky. The BeSSeL Survey and the Japanese…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-13 Mark J. Reid

Compact galactic and extragalactic radio sources can be imaged with an unsurpassed angular resolution of a few ten micro-arcseconds, adopting the observing technique of global millimeter VLBI. Here we present the Global Millimeter VLBI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Krichbaum , I. Agudo , U. Bach , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

The first observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from NASA's \emph{Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe} (WMAP) led to finding `alignment' anomalies not expected from fluctuations in the isotropic cosmological model. We study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Sanjeet Kumar Patel , Pavan Kumar Aluri , John P. Ralston

Multi-frequency, high resolution, full sky measurements of the anisotropy in both temperature and polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation are the goals of the satellite missions MAP (NASA) and Planck (ESA). The ultimate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Gorski , E. Hivon , B. D. Wandelt

We describe the instrumentation, experiment design and data reduction for the first season of observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), a compact microwave interferometer designed to measure anisotropy in the Cosmic…

Results are reported from the first flight of a new balloon-borne instrument, BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement), designed to search for cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. The instrument uses a cryogenic differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Tucker , H. P. Gush , M. Halpern , I. Shinkoda , W. Towlson

Due to cosmic variance we cannot learn any more about large-scale inhomogeneities from the primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone. More information on large scales is essential for resolving large angular scale anomalies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandra Terrana , Mary-Jean Harris , Matthew C. Johnson

I develop a method for assessing the ability of an instrument, coupled with an observing strategy, to measure the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It allows for efficient calculation of expected parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lloyd Knox

Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies provide strong evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy. They can also test its composition, probing the energy density and particle mass of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin , Rupert Allison , Jo Dunkley , Erminia Calabrese

We present a new, more powerful and accurate, analytic treatment of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in the weakly coupled regime. Three applications are presented: gravitational redshifts in a time dependent potential, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Martin White

The divergence of the momentum density field of the large scale structure generates a secondary anisotropy contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). While the effect is best described as a non-linear extension to the well-known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asantha Cooray , Naoki Seto

We discuss several opportunities involving cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations during the post-MAP era. The curl-modes of CMB polarization allow a direct detection of inflationary gravitational waves and a measurement of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

We are using the VLBA at 8 GHz to observe a sample of 834 nearby 2MASS galaxies that are stronger than 100 mJy in the NVSS. The goals of the project are to detect (1) supermassive black holes significantly offset from the IR positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-31 Jim Condon , Jeremy Darling , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Leonid Petrov

The secondary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological information. Pairing measurements of the CMB temperature map obtained by DR5 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro

We report cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum measurements from the first 100 sq. deg. field observed by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) at 150 and 220 GHz. On angular scales where the primary CMB anisotropy is dominant, ell ~<…