Instrument, method, brightness, and polarization maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 458, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 687-716

  Masi, S ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Bock, J J ^c   Bond, J R ^d   Borrill, J ^e,f   Boscaleri, A ^g   Cabella, P ^h   Contaldi, C R ^d,i   Crill, B P ^j   De Bernardis, P ^a   De Gasperis, G ^h   De Oliveira Costa, A ^k   De Troia, G ^a   Di Stefano, G ^l   Ehlers, P ^m   Hivon, E ^j   Hristov, V ^j   Iacoangeli, A ^a   Jaffe, A H ⁱ   Jones, W C ^j   Kisner, T S ^n,o   Lange, A E ^j   MacTavish, C J ^m   Bettolo, C Marini ^a   Mason, P ^j   Mauskopf, P D ^b   Montroy, T E ⁿ   Nati, F ^a   Nati, L ^a   Natoli, P ^h,p   Netterfield, C B ^m   Pascale, E ^m   Piacentini, F ^a   Pogosyan, D ^d,q   Polenta, G ^a   Prunet, S ^r   Ricciardi, S ^a   Romeo, G ^l   Ruhl, J E ⁿ   Santini, P ^a   Tegmark, M ^k   Torbet, E ^o   Veneziani, M ^a   Vittorio, N ^h,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁿ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^r INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Instrumentation: Polarimeters; ISM: Clouds; ISM: HII regions; Techniques: Polarimetric

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; COSMIC RAYS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB); HII REGIONS; INTERSTELLAR COMPONENTS; ISM;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 33750729619     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053891     Document Type: Article

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