Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization Mapper

Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization Mapper

CAPMAP is an experiment at Princeton university to measure the polarization of the Cosmic microwave background.

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v · d · eCosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)
Effects

Cosmic variance  · Diffusion damping  · Sachs–Wolfe effect  · Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect  · Recombination  · Thomson scattering
WMAP full-sky temperature map
Full-sky temperature map taken by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
Space-based
experiments

COBE  · CMBPol  · Planck  · RELIKT-1  · SPOrt  · WMAP
Balloon
experiments

Archeops  · BOOMERanG  · EBEX  · MAXIMA  · QMAP  · Spider  · TopHat
Ground-based
experiments

ABS  · ACBAR  · ACT  · AMI  · AMiBA  · APEX-SZ  · BICEP  · BICEP2  · BIMA  · CAPMAP  · CAT  · CBI  · Clover  · COSMOSOMAS  · DASI  · GUBBINS  · Keck Array  · MAT  · OCRA  · OVRO  · QUaD  · QUIET  · QUIJOTE  · RGWBT  · Saskatoon  · SPT  · SZA  · Tenerife  · VSA

Coordinates: 40°20′41″N 74°39′17″W / 40.3446°N 74.6547°W / 40.3446; -74.6547



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