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1. Theory and tools
   1. Universities and observatories
   2. Personal pages about CMB
   3. Codes
2. Experiments
   1. Satellites
   2. Balloon and Ground Based
      1. South Pole observations
      2. MAX, MAXIMA, & BOOMERanG
      3. Polarisation
      4. Interferometry

 

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1 - Theory and tools

• CMB faq
• CMB resources
• CMBNET (a CMB network)
• some theory at MRAO
• CMB Astrophysics Research Program at UC Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  

  1 - Universities and observatories

  • CMB at Berkeley
  • CMB at Copenhagen
  • CMB at Garching
  • CMB at Harvard
  • CMB at Jodrell Bank
  • CMB at Princeton
  • CMB at Toulouse
  • CMB at Virginia

  2 - Personal pages about CMB

  • Julian Borril's CMB page
  • Ken Ganga's CMB page
  • Wayne Hu's CMB page
  • Douglas Scott's CMB page
  • Max Tegmark's CMB research and analysis
  • Martin White's CMB page

  3 - Codes

  • CAMB: Code for Anisotropies in the Microwave Background
  • CMBFAST code (by Seljak and Zaldarriaga)
  • COMBAT: Cosmic Microwave Background Analysis Tools
  • COSMICS: Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes (MIT)
  • ccSHT: a fast parallel Spherical Harmonic Transform
  • HEALpix: Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelisation of the sphere)
  • Igloo Pixelization Scheme
  • MADCAP: The Microwave Anisotropy Dataset Computational Analysis Package
  • MAPSIM: CMB maps simulation
  • WOMBAT (and its challenge)

 

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2 - Experiments

• A table of experiments
• Bandpowers
• Questions of dust
• Questions of foregrounds
• CMB at UBC (British Columbia)

1 - Satellites

• COBE
  
  • COBE home page at NASA
  • COBE at LBL
• Planck Surveyor (formerly called COBRAS/SAMBA)
  
  • Planck links at Bologne and Cambridge
  • Planck at ESA
  • Planck at LBL
  • Analysis center  (Cambridge)
  • COSA: COsmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite / SAtellite to Measure Background Anisotropies
• MAP
• SPOrt

2 - Balloon and Ground Based (about balloons)

• Archeops
• ARGO
• BAM: Balloon-Borne Anisotropy Measurement
• Bartol experiment (bolometer)
• CBI (Cosmic Background Imager project)
• CG (Cosmological Gene project)
• Cold experiment (with Russian RATAN radiotelescope)
• DIMES (Diffuse Microwave Emission Survey)
• FIRS: the Far Infra-Red Survey
• MAT: Mobile Anisotropy Telescope (Princeton project)
• OVRO:
  
  • at Caltech
  • at NRAO
• Nobeyama Radio Observatory
• Python
• QMAP (Princeton) and here
• Saskatoon: SK93, SK94 and SK95 (Big Plate)
• Tenerife
• Viper
• VSA project (Very small Array) and its results
• White Dish, and a little here
• XPER (X-band Experiment, Princeton)
  

  a - South Pole observations

  • About Antarctica
  • APACHE (Antarctic Plateau Anisotropy CHasing Experiment)
  • MSAM/TopHat
  • CARA
  • HACME (UCSB South pole experiment)
  • DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferometer)
  • ACBAR

  b - MAX, MAXIMA, & BOOMERanG

  • BOOMERanG
  • MAX and MAXIMA
  • MAX, MAXIMA & BOOMERanG at LBL

  c - Polarisation

  • Polarisation primer (Hu and White)
  • Polatron
  • POLAR: Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions
  • Sarah Church's Home Page
  • PIQUE (polarization project at Princeton)

  d - Interferometry

  • AMI: the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager
  • CAT: the Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
  • IRAM interferometer
  • NRAO
  • VLA interferometer
  • MINT : Millimeter INTerferometer
  • The MMA project

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