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SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter
B. P. Crill, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +34
Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic…
Spider Optimization: Probing the Systematics of a Large Scale B-Mode Experiment
C. J. MacTavish, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +31
Spider is a long-duration, balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure large scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization with very high sensitivity and control of system…
Searching for non Gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG 2003 CMB maps
G. De Troia, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +38
We analyze the BOOMERanG 2003 (B03) 145 GHz temperature map to constrain the amplitude of a non Gaussian, primordial contribution to CMB fluctuations. We perform a pixel space anal…
Instrumental and Analytic Methods for Bolometric Polarimetry
W. C. Jones, T. E. Montroy, B. P. Crill +6
We discuss instrumental and analytic methods that have been developed for the first generation of bolometric cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters. The design, characteriz…
A Measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG
T. E. Montroy, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +34
We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the January 2003 Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from six days of observation of a patch c…
Instrument, Method, Brightness and Polarization Maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG
S Masi, P Ade, J Bock +41
We present the BOOMERanG-03 experiment and maps of the Stokes parameters I, Q, U of the microwave sky obtained during a 14 day balloon flight in 2003. Three regions of the southern…
A measurement of the polarization-temperature angular cross power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG
F Piacentini, P Ade, J Bock +34
We present a measurement of the temperature-polarization angular cross power spectrum, <TE>, of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The result is based on hours of data fro…
Cosmological Parameters from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG
C. J. MacTavish, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
We present the cosmological parameters from the CMB intensity and polarization power spectra of the 2003 Antarctic flight of the BOOMERANG telescope. The BOOMERANG data alone const…
A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the CMB Temperature Anisotropy from the 2003 Flight of Boomerang
W. C. Jones, P Ade, J Bock +34
We report on observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the January 2003 flight of Boomerang . These results are derived from 195 hours of observation wi…
WMAP confirming the ellipticity in BOOMERanG and COBE CMB maps
V. G. Gurzadyan, P. A. R. Ade, P. de Bernardis +20
The recent study of BOOMERanG 150 GHz Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation maps have detected ellipticity of the temperature anisotropy spots independent on the temperature…
Maps of the millimetre sky from the BOOMERanG experiment
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, A. Balbi +38
In the 1998-99 flight, BOOMERanG has produced maps of of the sky at high Galactic latitudes, at frequencies of 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz, with resolution $\simgt 10'$. Th…
Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG
T. Montroy, P. A. R. Ade, A. Balbi +38
BOOMERANG is a balloon-borne telescope designed for long duration (LDB) flights around Antarctica. The second LDB Flight of BOOMERANG took place in January 2003. The primary goal o…
Observations of Galactic and Extra-galactic Sources From the BOOMERANG and SEST Telescopes
K. Coble, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +32
We present millimeter-wave observations of three extra-galactic and six Galactic sources in the Southern sky. Observations were made at 90, 150, 240 and 400 GHz with resolutions of…
The trispectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background on sub-degree angular scales: an analysis of the BOOMERanG data
G. De Troia, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +21
The trispectrum of the cosmic microwave background can be used to assess the level of non-Gaussianity on cosmological scales. It probes the fourth order moment, as a function of an…
Improved Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of Temperature Anisotropy in the CMB from Two New Analyses of BOOMERANG Observations
J. E. Ruhl, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +27
We report the most complete analysis to date of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the 1998 flight of BOOMERANG. We use two quite different metho…
Ellipticity analysis of the BOOMERanG CMB maps
V. G. Gurzadyan, P. A. R. Ade, P. de Bernardis +20
The properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps carry valuable cosmological information. Here we report the results of the analysis hot and cold CMB anisotropy spots i…
BOOMERANG: A Balloon-borne Millimeter Wave Telescope and Total Power Receiver for Mapping Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background
B. P. Crill, P. A. R. Ade, D. R. Artusa +34
We describe BOOMERANG; a balloon-borne microwave telescope designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at a resolution of 10' from the Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platfor…
The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the Universe
S. Masi, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
We describe the BOOMERanG experiment and its main result, i.e. the measurement of the large scale curvature of the Universe. BOOMERanG is a balloon-borne microwave telescope with s…
Search for non-gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG maps: pixel-space analysis
G. Polenta, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +28
We search the BOOMERanG maps of the anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) for deviations from gaussianity. In this paper we focus on analysis techniques in pixel-spac…
Multiple Peaks in the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Significance and Consequences for Cosmology
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +32
Three peaks and two dips have been detected in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from the BOOMERANG experiment, at and $\ell \sim 420,…
The BOOMERANG North America Instrument: a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer optimized for measurements of cosmic background radiation anisotropies from 0.3 to 4 degrees
F. Piacentini, P. A. R. Ade, R. Bathia +24
We describe the BOOMERANG North America (BNA) instrument, a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation with 0.3 deg resolut…
A measurement by BOOMERANG of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background
C. B. Netterfield, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +30
This paper presents a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from l=75 to l=1025 (~10' to 5 degrees) from a combined analysis of four 150 GHz…
High latitude Galactic dust emission in the BOOMERanG maps
S. Masi, P. A. R. Ade, J. J Bock +14
We present mm-wave observations obtained by the BOOMERanG experiment of Galactic emission at intermediate and high (b < -20 deg) Galactic latitudes. We find that this emission is w…
Noise estimation in CMB time-streams and fast map-making. Application to the BOOMERanG98 data
S. Prunet, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
We describe here an iterative method for jointly estimating the noise power spectrum from a CMB experiment's time-ordered data, together with the maximum-likelihood map. We test th…