[2004/5/12 Stanford] Beyond Einstein

[2004/7-2005/1, JPL/Caltech]

[2004/7/18-8/2 JPL] Spectroscopy, Beam mapping

[2004/8/3-5 Caltech] Mount

[2004/9/8-10/8 Caltech] Beam mapping

[2004/11/8-12/1, 12/7-22, 2005/1/12-18 Caltech] Motion control system

[2005/6/12-8/23, 8/30-10/21 Caltech] 10/14 Shipped Mount

[2005/11/15-2006/1/13, South Pole] Deployment

[2005/11/10 SFO->LAX->AKL 11/12->CHC 11/14->MCM 11/15->NPX]

[2006/11/3-2007/1/5 South Pole]

NASA Research Proposal

Team: (Holzapfel group / Berkeley Cosmology)

Andrew Lange, Bill Holzapfel, Brian Keating, John Kovac, Viktor Hristov

Jamie Bock, Darren Dowell, Chao-Lin Kuo, Hien Nguyen, John Battle

Denis Barkats, Ki Won Yoon, Cynthia Chiang, Yuki Takahashi, Evan Bierman

Specifications:

Observing wavelength	3 mm (150 GHz), 2 mm (100 GHz)
Aperture / Window diameter	200 / 300 mm
Minimum elevation observed	50° (~40° including FoV)
Field of view	17°

Experiments

space:	Planck (2007)	SPOrt (2005)	WMAP (2002)
balloon:	MAXIPOL (2003)	B2K (2003)	Archeops (2002)		(bolometers)
large scales:	BICEP (2005)	COMPASS (2003)	POLAR (2000)		(radiometers)
interferometer:	AMiBA (2005)	CBI (2004)	DASI (2001)
small scales:	PolarBear (2005)	QU aD (2005)	CAPMAP (2003)

2004/3 Delabrouille et al (France) Polarization experiments

2004/2 Mennella et al (Italia) experimental challenges & perspectives

2003/9 Bowden et al Scientific optimization of a ground-based CMB polarization experiment

2003/8 Carlstrom, Kovac, Leitch, Pryke Status of CMB polarization measurements from DASI and other experiments

1999 NASA Cosmic Microwave Background Future Missions Working Group report

201?: Inflation Probe B-Mode

Reference Wayne Hu

2003/12 Kinney The energy scale of inflation

2003/12 Kaplinghat Energy Scale of Inflation and the CMB

2003/10 Kaplan et al CMB polarization

2003/5 Zaldarriaga: The Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

2003/3 Workshop on The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Polarization

2002/10 Hu: CMB temperature and polarization anisotropy fundamentals (Annals of Physics)

2002/9 Hu & Dodelson: Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies (Annual Review)

2002/9 Kamionkowski: Gravitational Waves and CMB Polarization

2002/3 Gangui: Topological defects

2001 Hu: CMB tutorial (intermediate)

2001 Kamionkowski & Caldwell: Echoes from the Big Bang

1999 Kosowsky: Introduction to Microwave Background Polarization

1996 Hu & White: A CMB Polarization Primer

1996 Hu: A Tour of CMB Physics

1996 Hu: An Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background (beginners)

CAPMAP Chicago polarimetry

Gangui Angelica Jamie Bock

Outreach: Elementary school level, Kim Coble

Harmony of Cosmology and Religion