A balloon-borne millimeter-wave telescope for cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurements

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 470, Issue 1 PART I, 1996, Pages 63-77

  Fixsen, D J ^a   Cheng, E S ^a   Cottingham, D A ^a   Folz, W C ^a   Inman, C A ^b   Kowitt, M S ^c   Meyer, S S ^b   Page, L A ^a   Puchalla, J L ^a   Ruhl, J E ^a   Sllverberg, R F ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloons; Cosmic microwave background; Instrumentation: Miscellaneous telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444436207     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177850     Document Type: Article

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