MAXIPOL
(Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array)
(1998-1999 balloon-borne 1.3-meter millimeter telescope)
MAXIPOL was a follow-on to MAXIMA,
incorporating the same 1.3-meter far infrared telescope,
with a new receiver consisting of a 12-polarimeter focal plane array,
for further cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation.
It was flown twice (MAXIPOL-0 and MAXIPOL-1),
both times in New Mexico, in September 2002 and in May 2023,
mapping CMB polarization over about 8 square degrees.
(CMB,telescope,reflector,microwave,infrared,airborne)
Further reading:
https://groups.spa.umn.edu/cosmology/maxipol/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003NewAR..47.1067J/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AAS...20924007P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...665...42J/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...665...55W/abstract
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 714μm | 420GHz | 1.8meV | begin | MAXIPOL |
| 2.2mm | 140GHz | 579μeV | end | MAXIPOL |
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Referenced by pages:
CMB surveys
MAXIMA
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