Cosmic Background Imager

Web Resources for Cosmology and the CMB

CBI Sponsors

• California Institute of Technology.
• Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
• National Science Foundation.
• Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.
• Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile.
• CONICYT (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica), Chile.
• Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía (Chilean Astronomical Society).

General Cosmology

• Cosmology tutorial by Ned White
• Cosmology 101, from the MAP group
• What is Theoretical Cosmology, by J. Cohn and M. White

Useful collections of Web pages on the Microwave Background are maintained by

• Wayne Hu (U. Chicago)
• Max Tegmark (U. Penn)
• Martin White (Harvard U.)

Selected CMB Experiments

Satellites

• COBE: Cosmic Background Explorer (NASA)
• WMAP: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (NASA)
• Planck Surveyor (ESA)

Interferometers

• AMiBA (Taiwan)
• CBI (Caltech)
• DASI (U. Chicago)
• VSA, CAT (MRAO, Cambridge)

Balloons

• Archeops (CNRS, France)
• Boomerang (Case Western Reserve University)
• MAXIMA (UC Berkeley)

Other Ground-Based

• ACBAR (CARA, U. Chicago)
• MAT/TOCO (Princeton)

Polarization

• POLAR, COMPASS (U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Polatron (Caltech)

Theory

• CAMB: Code for Anisotropies in the Microwave Background
• MADCAP - The Microwave Anisotropy Dataset Computational Analysis Package
• IGLOO Pixelization Scheme
• RADPACK The RADical Compression Analysis PACKage
• COMBAT: COsmic Microwave Background Analysis Tools
• CMBFAST Rapid Boltzmann code for calculating power spectra and matter transfer functions
• Data compilation at Toulouse
• HEALPIX Pixelization Scheme
• CMB Analysis (Max Tegmark)
• CMB Theory (Hu)
• TAC CMB Pages

You can use Google to find some other pages that link to this site.

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