COSMOSOMAS

COSMOSOMAS
Start year
2003
End year
2008
Organizational Unit
INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION
Organizing institutions
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
Description

The COSMOSOMAS experiment has been running for several years at the Observatorio del Teide. Since 2003 work on COSMOSOMAS has been upgraded from the usual maintenance functions to a programme of improvements as a result of renewed scientific interest in these observations. The improvements largely consist of tuning to achieve reliable data quality and improving security at the installations.

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Related projects
Full-sky map showing the spatial distribution of the primary anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (generated 380,000 years after the Big Bang) derived from observations of the Planck satellite
Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background

The general goal of this project is to determine and characterize the spatial and spectral variations in the temperature and polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background in angular scales from several arcminutes to several degrees. The primordial matter density fluctuations which originated the structure in the matter distribution of the present

Rafael
Rebolo López
In progress
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COSMOSOMAS
COSMOSOMAS
Estructuras cósmicas a escalas angulares intermedias
Experiment
Type
Instrumentation
State
Closed
http://research.iac.es/proyecto/cmb/pages/en/home-cmb.php
Cosmology & Astroparticles (CYA, CTA)
Microwave instrumentation

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