Making Maps from Planck LFI 30GHz Data with Asymmetric Beams and Cooler Noise (2008)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Bartlett, J. G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., De Gasperis, G., ...
The Planck satellite will observe the full sky at nine frequencies from 30 to 857 GHz. The goal of this paper is to examine the effects of four realistic instrument systematics in the 30 GHz...
Making sky maps from Planck data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J.G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from Planck-sized, all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. Three of the codes are based on a...
Making sky maps from Planck data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J.G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from Planck-sized, all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. Three of the codes are based on a...
Making sky maps from Planck data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J.G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from Planck-sized, all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. Three of the codes are based on a...
Searching for non Gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG 2003 CMB maps (2007)
De Troia, G., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 analysis restricted to...
Making Maps from Planck LFI 30GHz Data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J.G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
This paper is one of a series describing the performance and accuracy of map-making codes as assessed by the Planck CTP working group. We compare the performance of multiple codes written by...
MAXIPOL: Data Analysis and Results (2007)
Wu, J. H. P., Zuntz, J., Abroe, M. E., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J., Borrill, J., ...
We present results from and the analysis of data from MAXIPOL, a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first CMB...
Making Maps from Planck LFI 30GHz Data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J. G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
This paper is one of a series describing the performance and accuracy of map-making codes as assessed by the Planck CTP working group. We compare the performance of multiple codes written by...
MAXIPOL: Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry Using a Rotating Half-Wave Plate (2007)
Johnson, B. R., Collins, J., Abroe, M. E., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J., Borrill, J., ...
We discuss MAXIPOL, a bolometric balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the E-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first bolometric CMB...
Making sky maps from Planck data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J. G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
Making maps from Planck LFI 30 GHz data (2007)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J. G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
MAXIPOL: Data Analysis and Results (2006)
Wu, J. H. P., Zuntz, J., Abroe, M. E., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J., Borrill, J., ...
We present results from and the analysis of data from MAXIPOL, a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first CMB...
MAXIPOL: Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry Using a Rotating Half-Wave Plate (2006)
Johnson, B. R., Collins, J., Abroe, M. E., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J., Borrill, J., ...
We discuss MAXIPOL, a bolometric balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the E-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first bolometric CMB...
Making sky maps from Planck data (2006)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J. G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from Planck-sized, all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. Three of the codes are based on a...
Making sky maps from Planck data (2006)
Ashdown, M. A. J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Bartlett, J. G., Borrill, J., Cantalupo, C., ...
We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from Planck-sized, all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. Three of the codes are based on a...
Adams, C.E., Rathbone, J., Thornley, B., Clarke, M., Borrill, J., Wahlbeck, K., ...
BACKGROUND: Chlorpromazine (CPZ) remains one of the most common drugs used for people with schizophrenia worldwide, and a benchmark against which other treatments can be evaluated. Quantitative...
Adams, C.E., Rathbone, J., Thornley, B., Clarke, M., Borrill, J., Wahlbeck, K., ...
BACKGROUND: Chlorpromazine (CPZ) remains one of the most common drugs used for people with schizophrenia worldwide, and a benchmark against which other treatments can be evaluated. Quantitative...
Adams, C.E., Rathbone, J., Thornley, B., Clarke, M., Borrill, J., Wahlbeck, K., ...
BACKGROUND: Chlorpromazine (CPZ) remains one of the most common drugs used for people with schizophrenia worldwide, and a benchmark against which other treatments can be evaluated. Quantitative...
Jones, W. C., Ade, P, Bock, J, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Boscaleri, A, ...
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 with four 145 GHz...
Cosmological Parameters from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG (2005)
MacTavish, C. J., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 constrains the...
Piacentini, F, Ade, P, Bock, J, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Boscaleri, A, ...
We present a measurement of the temperature-polarization angular cross power spectrum, , of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The result is based on $\sim 200$ hours of data from 8 polarization...
Instrument, Method, Brightness and Polarization Maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG (2005)
Masi, S, Ade, P, Bock, J, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Boscaleri, A, ...
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 sky were surveyed:...
A Measurement of the CMB Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG (2005)
Montroy, T. E., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 covering 0.22% of...
Comparison of map-making algorithms for CMB experiments (2005)
Poutanen, T., De Gasperis, G., Hivon, E., Kurki-Suonio, H., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., ...
We have compared the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy maps made from one-year time ordered data (TOD) streams that simulated observations of the originally planned 100 GHz...
Netterfield, C. B., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 channels in the...
Maps of the millimetre sky from the BOOMERanG experiment (2003)
De Bernardis, P., Ade, P. A. R., Balbi, A., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., ...
In the 1998-99 flight, BOOMERanG has produced maps of $\sim 4 %$ of the sky at high Galactic latitudes, at frequencies of 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz, with resolution $\simgt 10'$. The faint structure...
The MAXIMA Experiment: Latest Results and Consistency Tests (2003)
Stompor, R., Hanany, S., Abroe, M. E., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Jaffe, A. H., ...
The MAXIMA cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiment had a significant impact on cosmology. Results from the program have played a significant role in determining the geometry of the...
MAXIMA: A Balloon-Borne Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment (2003)
Rabii, B., Winant, C. D., Abroe, M. E., Ade, P., Balbi, A., Bock, J. J., ...
We describe the Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on...
Correlations Between the WMAP and MAXIMA Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Maps (2003)
Abroe, M. E., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., Jaffe, A. H., Johnson, B. R., ...
We cross-correlate the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy maps from the WMAP, MAXIMA-I, and MAXIMA-II experiments. We use the cross-spectrum, which is the spherical harmonic transform...
Johnson, B. R., Abroe, M. E., Ade, P., Bock, J., Borrill, J., Collins, J. S., ...
We discuss MAXIPOL, a bolometric balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the E-mode polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) on angular scales of 10 arcmin to 2...
Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG (2003)
Montroy, T., Ade, P. A. R., Balbi, A., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., ...
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 of this flight was...
Observations of Galactic and Extra-galactic Sources From the BOOMERANG and SEST Telescopes (2003)
Coble, K., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 18, 10, 14 and 12...
Jaffe, A. H., Balbi, A., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Finkbeiner, D., ...
Observations of the CMB can be contaminated by diffuse foreground emission from sources such as Galactic dust and synchrotron radiation. In these cases, the morphology of the contaminating source is...
Ruhl, J. E., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 methods to determine the...
Santos, M. G., Heavens, A., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., ...
We describe different methods for estimating the bispectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background data. In particular we construct a minimum variance estimator for the flat-sky limit and compare results...
Search for non-gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG maps: pixel-space analysis (2002)
Polenta, G., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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-space, and compute...
The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the Universe (2002)
Masi, S., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 sensitive cryogenic...
Abroe, M. E., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., Bunn, E. F., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., ...
We use a frequentist statistical approach to set confidence intervals on the values of cosmological parameters using the MAXIMA-1 and COBE measurements of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic...
The MAXIMA and MAXIPOL experiments (2001)
Richards, P.L., Abroe, M., Ade, P., Balbi, A., Bock, J., Borrill, J., ...
Estimate of the Cosmological Bispectrum from the MAXIMA-1 Cosmic Microwave Background Map (2001)
Santos, M. G., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., Jaffe, A. H., ...
We use the measurement of the cosmic microwave background taken during the MAXIMA-1 flight to estimate the bispectrum of cosmological perturbations. We propose an estimator for the bispectrum that is...
De Bernardis, P., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
Three peaks and two dips have been detected in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from the BOOMERANG experiment, at $\ell \sim 210, 540, 840$ and $\ell \sim 420, 750$,...
Stompor, R., Abroe, M., Ade, P., Balbi, A., Barbosa, D., Bock, J., ...
We discuss the cosmological implications of the new constraints on the power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy derived from a new high resolution analysis of the MAXIMA-1...
C. B. Netterfield, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, A. Boscaleri, ...
Introduction The presence of a harmonic series of "acoustic" peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) was predicted as early as 1970 (Sunyaev & Zeldovich 1970;...
Netterfield, C. B., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 channels in the...
Lee, A. T., Ade, P., Balbi, A., Bock, J., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
We extend the analysis of the MAXIMA-1 cosmic microwave background (CMB) data to smaller angular scales. MAXIMA, a bolometric balloon experiment, mapped a 124 deg$^2$ region of the sky with 10\arcmin...
Tests for Gaussianity of the MAXIMA-1 CMB Map (2001)
Wu, J. H. P., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., Jaffe, A. H., ...
Gaussianity of the cosmological perturbations in the universe is one of the key predictions of standard inflation, but it is violated by other models of structure formation such as topological...
First Estimations of Cosmological Parameters from Boomerang (2001)
J. Borrill, A. Boscaleri, K. Coble, P. Farese, P. Ferreira, K. Ganga
this paper, we concentrate on determining a set of 7 cosmological parameters that characterize a very broad class of CDM models by statistically confronting the theoretical C ` 's with the B98 and...
Noise estimation in CMB time-streams and fast map-making. Application to the BOOMERanG98 data (2001)
Prunet, S., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
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 the robustness of...
Stompor, R., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P., Hanany, S., Jaffe, A., ...
We review selected methods of the Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis appropriate for the analysis of the largest currently available data sets. We focus on techniques of the time-ordered data...
De Bernardis, P., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
BOOMERanG has recently resolved structures on the last scattering surface at redshift $\sim$ 1100 with high signal to noise ratio. We review the technical advances which made this possible, and we...
First results from the BOOMERanG experiment (2000)
De Bernardis, P., Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
We report the first results from the BOOMERanG experiment, which mapped at 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz a wide (3%) region of the microwave sky with minimal local contamination. From the data of the best...
Bond, J. R., Ade, P., Balbi, A., Bock, J., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., ...
We show how estimates of parameters characterizing inflation-based theories of structure formation localized over the past year when large scale structure (LSS) information from galaxy and cluster...
The Quintessential CMB, Past & Future (2000)
Bond, J. R., Pogosyan, D., Prunet, S., Sigurdson, K., Balbi, A., ...
The past, present and future of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy research is discussed, with emphasis on the Boomerang and Maxima balloon experiments. These data are combined with large...
The Cosmic Background Radiation circa nu2K (2000)
Bond, J. R., Pogosyan, D., Prunet, S., Balbi, A., Bock, J., ...
We describe the implications of cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and galaxy and cluster surveys of large scale structure (LSS) for theories of cosmic structure formation, especially...
Cosmology from Maxima-1, Boomerang and COBE/DMR CMB Observations (2000)
Jaffe, A. H., Ade, P. A. R., Balbi, A., Bock, J. J, Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., ...
Recent results from BOOMERANG-98 and MAXIMA-1, taken together with COBE-DMR, provide consistent and high signal-to-noise measurements of the CMB power spectrum at spherical harmonic multipole bands...
Asymmetric Beams in Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiments (2000)
Wu, J. H. P., Balbi, A., Borrill, J., Ferreira, P. G., Hanany, S., Jaffe, A. H., ...
We propose a new formalism to handle asymmetric beams in the data analysis of cosmic microwave background anis