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From the 2003 Long Duration Balloon Flight from Antarctica

  • Cosmological Parameters from the 2003 Flight of Boomerang , C. J. MacTavish, et al., submitted to ApJ, 2005.  (astro-ph/0507503)   [pdf] 

  • A measurement of the angular power spectrum of the CMB temperature anisotropy from the 2003 flight of Boomerang, W. C. Jones et al., submitted to ApJ, 2005.  (astro-ph/0507494)   [pdf] 

  • A measurement of the polarization-temperature angular cross power spectrum of the cosmie microwave background from the 2003 flight of Boomerang, F. Piacentini et al., submitted to ApJ, 2005.  (astro-ph/0507507)   [pdf] 

  • A measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 flight of Boomerang, T. E. Montroy et al., submitted to ApJ, 2005.  (astro-ph/0507514)   [pdf] 

From the 1998 Long Duration Balloon Flight from Antarctica

  • An Improved Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of Temperature Anisotropy in the CMB from Two New Analyses of BOOMERANG Observations, J.E. Ruhl, et al., Ap. J., December, 2002.  [pdf]

  • Multiple Peaks in the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background:  Significance and Consequences for Cosmology, P. deBernardis, et al., Ap. J., 564, p559, 2002. [pdf]

  • A measurement by BOOMERANG of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background, C.B. Netterfield, et al., Ap. J., 571, p604, 2002. (astro-ph/0104460). [pdf]

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  • High-latitude Galactic dust emission in the BOOMERanG maps, S. Masi, et al., Ap. J. 553, L93, 2001. (astro-ph/0101539). [pdf]

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  • A flat universe from high-resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation, P. de Bernardis, et al., Nature, v404, p955, 2000. [pdf]
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  • Cosmological Parameters from the first results of Boomerang, as accepted by Phys.Rev.D, A. E. Lange, et al. [pdf]
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  • Observations of Galactic and Extra-Galactic Sources From the Boomerang and SEST Telescopes , K. Coble, et al. [pdf]
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From the 1997 North American Test Flight data

  • Measurement of a Peak in the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum from the Test Flight of Boomerang, P. Mauskopf et al., Ap. J. Letters, 536, L59, (2000).  (astro-ph/9911444). [pdf]

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  • A Measurement of Omega From the Boomerang 1997 Test Flight, A. Melchiorri et al., Ap. J. Letters, 536, L63, (2000). (astro-ph/9911445). [pdf]


Instrument papers and Conference Proceedings

  • Boomerang : A Balloon-borne Millimeter Wave Telescope and Total Power Receiver for Mapping Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background, B.P. Crill, et al., Ap.J.S.,148,527, (2003). [pdf]

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  • A Polarization Sensitive Bolometric Detector for Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background, astro-ph/0209132, September 8, 2002., W.C. Jones et al.,  in SPIE-Proceedings, Waikaloa, HI 2002. [postscript, pdf]


Theses

  • CMB Angular Power Spectra and Cosmological Implications from the 2003 LDB flight of the Boomerang Telescope, Carolyn J. MacTavish, University of Toronto, June 2006. [postscript,pdf]
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  • A Measurement of the Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, William C. Jones, California Institute of Technology, May 2005. [postscript,pdf]
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  • Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background with BOOMERANG, Thomas E. Montroy, University of California, Dec 2003. [pdf]
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  • A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background with a Long Duration Balloon-borne Receiver, Brendan Crill, California Institute of Technology, Nov 2000. [postscript, pdf]

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