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Observations of the microwave sky using the Python telescope in its fifth season of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica are presented. The system consists of a 0.75 m off-axis telescope instrumented with a HEMT…

We analyze observations of the microwave sky made with the Python experiment in its fifth year of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. After modeling the noise and constructing a map, we extract the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Coble , S. Dodelson , M. Dragovan , K. Ganga , L. Knox , J. Kovac , B. Ratra , T. Souradeep

The third year of observations with the Python microwave background experiment densely sample a $5.5^o\times 22^o$ region of sky that includes the fields measured during the first two years of observations with this instrument. The sky is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. R. Platt , J. Kovac , M. Dragovan , J. B. Peterson , J. E. Ruhl

We report on a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The anisotropy is measured in 23 different multipole bands from l=54 (~3 deg) to l=404 (~0.45 deg) and in 6 frequency bands from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Netterfield , M. J. Devlin , N. Jarosik , L. Page , E. J. Wollack

We report on additional observations of degree scale anisotropy at 90~GHz from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Observations during the first season with the Python instrument yielded a statistically significant sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. E. Ruhl , M. Dragovan , S. R. Platt , J. Kovac , G. Novak

We describe an off-axis microwave telescope for observations of the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales between 0.5 deg and 3 deg. The receiver utilizes cryogenic high-electron-mobility transistor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 E. J. Wollack , M. J. Devlin , N. Jarosik , C. B. Netterfield , L. Page , D. Wilkinson

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data consist of 790 square degrees of sky observed at 150 GHz during 2008 and 2009. Here we…

We detect anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales and confirm a previous detection reported by Wollack et al. (1993). The root-mean-squared amplitude of the fluctuations is $44^{+13}_{-7} \mu$K. This may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. B. Netterfield , N. Jarosik , L. Page , D. Wilkinson , E. Wollack

Results of a search for small-scale anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are presented. Observations were made at the South Pole using the Viper telescope, with a .26 degree (FWHM) beam and a passband centered at 40 GHz.…

We report a measurement of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) on 7-22 arcminute scales. Observations of 36 fields near the North Celestial Pole (NCP) were made at 31.7 and 14.5 GHz, using the 5.5-meter and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Leitch , A. C. S. Readhead , T. J. Pearson , S. T. Myers , S. Gulkis , C. R. Lawrence

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature power spectrum using data from the recently completed South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. This measurement is made from observations of 2540…

We present a map and an angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first flight of MAXIMA. MAXIMA is a balloon-borne experiment with an array of 16 bolometric photometers operated at 100 mK.…

We present the results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy ground-based millimetric experiment sensitive to fluctuations on angular scales of $\sim 2\degg$. Four independent bands centered at 3.3, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm collected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Femenia , R. Rebolo , C. M. Gutierrez , M. Limon , L. Piccirillo

We present results from the QMAP balloon experiment, which maps the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and probes its angular power spectrum on degree scales. In two separate flights, data were taken in six channels at two frequency bands…

We constrain Galactic foreground contamination of the Python V cosmic microwave background anisotropy data by cross correlating it with foreground contaminant emission templates. To model foreground emission we use 100 and 12 $\mu$m dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pia Mukherjee , Kim Coble , Mark Dragovan , Ken Ganga , John Kovac , Bharat Ratra , Tarun Souradeep

We introduce a simple yet powerful {\it analytic} method which obtains the structure of cosmic microwave background anisotropies to better than 5-10\% in temperature fluctuations on {\it all} scales. It is applicable to {\it any} model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Wayne Hu , Naoshi Sugiyama

First results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy experiment conducted at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) are presented. The instrument is a four channel (3.1, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm) $^3$He bolometer system coupled…

We report measurements of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation over the multipole range l ~ 200 - 3500 with the Cosmic Background Imager based on deep observations of three fields. These results confirm the drop in power…

Full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background temperature reveal a 7% asymmetry of fluctuation power between two halves of the sky. A common phenomenological model for this asymmetry is an overall dipole modulation of statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Simone Aiola , Bingjie Wang , Arthur Kosowsky , Tina Kahniashvili , Hassan Firouzjahi
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