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CMB surveys

(CMB experiments)
(efforts studying the CMB)

There have been quite a number of CMB surveys, i.e., surveys specifically observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Some are intensity mapping for studying CMB anisotropies, some are specifically for studying CMB polarization, and some use the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect) to discover galaxy clusters and study the Universe's large scale structure. Nearly all use purpose-built instruments. Among them:

Archeops 1999-2000 balloon-borne
ABS 2012-2014 Atacama Desert, Chile
ACBAR 2000-2004 South Pole Station
ACT/AdvACT/ACTPol 2007-2015 Atacama Desert
AMI 2000s Mullard Observatory, England
BICEP/BICEP2/BICEP3/Keck Array 2000s South Pole Station
BOOMERanG 1998-2003 balloon-borne
CAPMAP early 2000s Princeton University
CAT 1990s Mullard Observatory
CMB-S4 future South Pole Station
COBE 1989-1993 space
CBI 1999-2008 Atacama Desert
COSMOSOMAS 1998-2007 Teide Observatory, Canary Islands
EBEX 2012-2013 balloon-borne
LiteBIRD future space
LSPE-STRIP ? Teide Observatory
LSPE-SWIPE future balloon-borne
MAXIMA 1998-1999 balloon-borne
Planck 2010-2013 space
POLARBEAR 2012-2016 Atacama Desert
QMAP 1996 balloon-borne
QUaD 2006-2007 South Pole Station
QUBIC 2022- Alto Chorrillos, Argentina
QUIET 2008-2010 Atacama Desert
QUIJOTE 2012- Teide Observatory
RELIKT-1 1980s space, on USSR's Prognoz 9 satellite
Saskatoon 1990s Saskatoon, Canada
Simons Array in deployment Atacama Desert
SPT, e.g., DASI 2000s South Pole Station
SPIDER 2015 balloon-borne
SZA 2005-2007 OVRO, California
Taurus­ plan balloon-borne
Tenerife Experiment 1980s-1990s Teide Observatory
TopHat 2001 balloon-borne
VSA 2002-2008 Teide Observatory
WMAP 2001-2010 space
YTLA 2006- Mauna Loa, Hawaii

(surveys,CMB)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cosmic_microwave_background_experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cosmic_microwave_background_experiments
https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/cmb/experiments.html
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/resources/cmblinks.html
https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/expt/

Referenced by page:
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