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Atacama B-Mode Search

(ABS)
(2012-2014 survey of the CMB)

The Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) was an astronomical survey of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in search of B-mode CMB polarization, carried out from 2012 to 2014 on a special-purpose telescope (ABS telescope) operating on the Atacama Plateau, located at the same site as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The survey had the nominal goal of discovering B-modes due to inflationary gravitational waves, but realistically was a test of equipment and techniques and a source of data for combined analysis (cross-correlations) and to strengthen existing conclusions.


(survey,CMB,polarization,telescope,ground,past,Chile)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_B-Mode_Search
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JLTP..184..534S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018JCAP...09..005K/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
2.1mm145GHz600μeVAtacama B-Mode Search

Referenced by pages:
CMB surveys
primordial gravitational waves

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