CMB Experiments

Below is a list of known CMB experiments, with links to their home pages (if available), a brief description, and, whenever possible, links to internal LAMBDA pages which provide the publicly available data from these experiments. LAMBDA serves as a long-term repository for these archives. If an experiment of interest to you is missing from the list, or there is experimental data you would like to provide, please contact us via the suggestion form.

The left-most colum contains links to the individual project websites, which will typically provide the most comprehensive collections of data. The second column contains links to project data held at LAMBDA. Initially the data at LAMBDA might be a subset of the data at the project website, but the LAMBDA holdings will grow with time and they will be maintained as a permanent archive.

Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiments
Links to Project Website	Data At LAMBDA	Full Name	Year	Status	l-min	l-max	Frequ- ency (GHz)	Detectors	Polariz- ation Values	Type
QMAP	Sky Maps	QMAP	1996	Completed	30	850	30-140	HEMT/SIS	No	Balloon
MAXIMA	Power Spectra and Sky Maps	Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array	1995, 1998, 1999	Completed	50	700	150-420	Bolometer	No	Balloon
QMASK	Power Spectra and Sky Maps	QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination	-	Completed	40	335	-	-	No	Balloon / Ground
ACBAR	Power Spectra	Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver	2001-2008	Completed	60	2700	150, 219, 274	Bolometer	No	Ground
Archeops	Power Spectra	Archeops	1999-2002	Completed	10	700	143, 217, 353, 545	Bolometer	Yes	Balloon
BICEP	Power Spectra	Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization	2005-2008	Completed	21	335	100, 150, 220	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
CBI	Power Spectra	Cosmic Background Imager	2002-2008	Completed	300	3000	26-36,in 10 channels	Interferometer/ HEMT	No	Ground
MSAM	Power Spectra	Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement	1992-1997	Completed	69	362	150-650	Bolometer	No	Ballon
VSA	Power Spectra	Very Small Array	2002-2004	Completed	130	1800	26-36	Interferometer/ HEMT	No	Ground
ACT	DATA	Atacama Cosmology Telescope	2008-date	Active	500	10000	148, 218, 277	Bolometer	No	Ground
SPT	DATA	South Pole Telescope	2007-date	Active	650	9500	95, 150, 220	Bolometer	No	Ground
QUaD	DATA	Quest (Q and U Extra-Galactic Sub-mm Telescope) at DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferomete)	2005-2010	Completed	n/a	n/a	100, 150	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
QUIET	DATA	QU Imaging ExperimenT	2008-2010	Completed	60	3500	40, 90	HEMT	Yes	Ground
WMAP	DATA	Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe	2001-2010	Completed	2	1200	23, 33, 41, 61, 94	HEMT	Yes	Satellite
COBE	DATA	Cosmic Background Explorer	1989-1993	Completed			31.5, 53, 90	-	No	Satellite
Planck	DATA	Planck	2009-date	Active			30 -- 857	Radio, Bolometer	Yes	Satellite
AMI		Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager	2005-date	Active	-	-	12-18	Interferometer	No	Ground
ACME/ HACME	-	Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer / HEMT+ACME	1988-1996	Completed	10	180	26-35 and 38-45	HEMT	No	Ground
APACHE	-	Antarctic PlateauAnisotropy CHasing Experiment	1995-1996	Completed	-	-	100, 150, 250	Bolometer	No	Ground
AMiBA	-	Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy	2007-date	Active	-	-	90	-	Yes	Ground
ARGO	-	ARGO	1988, 1990, 1993	Completed	53	180	150-600	Bolometer	No	Balloon
ATCA	-	Australia Telescope Compact Array	1991-1997	Completed	3350	6050	8.7	HEMT	No	Ground
BAM	-	Balloon- borne Anisotropy Measurement	1995	Completed	30	100	110-250	Liquid-helium cooled, Fourier transform spectrometer	No	Balloon
BOOMERanG	-	Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation AND Geophysics	1997-2003	Completed	25	1025	90-420	Bolometer	Yes	Balloon
CAPMAP	-	Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper	2002-2008	Completed	500	1500	90 and 40	MMIC/ HEMT	Yes	Ground
CAT	-	Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope	1994-1997	Completed	339	722	13-17	Interferometer/ HEMT	No	Ground
CG	-	Cosmological Gene	1997-date	Active	100	1000	0.6 to 32	HEMT	No	Ground
COMPASS	-	COsmic Microwave Polarization At Small Scales	2003-date	Active	200	600	26-36	HEMT	Yes	Ground
DASI	-	Degree Angular Scale Interfer-ometer	2001-2003	Completed	200	900	26-36,in 10 bands	HEMT	Yes	Ground
FIRS	-	Far Infra-Red Survey	1989	Completed	3	29	170-680	Bolometer	No	Balloon
MAT	-	Mobile Anisotropy Telescope	1997, 1998	Completed	30	1100	30-140	HEMT/SIS	No	Ground
MBI-B	-	Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer	-	Future	-	-	90	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
MINT	-	Millimeter INTerfer-ometer	-	Future	1000	3000	150	SIS	No	Ground
PIQUE	-	Princeton I, Q, and U Experiment	2002	Completed	69	362	90	Bolometer	Yes	Ballon
POLAR	-	Polarization Observations oF Large Angular Regions	2000	Active	2	30	26-46	HEMT	Yes	Ground
Polatron	-	Polatron	-	Cancelled	200	2000	100	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
Python	-	Python	1992-1997	Completed	55	240	30-90	Bolometer/ HEMT	No	Ground
SK	-	Saskatoon	1993-1995	Completed	52	401	26-46	HEMT	Yes	Ground
Tenerife	-	Tenerife	1984-2000	Completed	13	30	10, 15, 33	HEMT	No	Ground
TopHat	-	TopHat	2002-2004	Completed	10	700	150-720	Bolometer	No	Balloon
BEAST	-	Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope	2000-date	Active	10	1000	100 and 150	HEMT	Yes	Balloon, Ground
BaR-SPOrt	-	Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations	-	Cancelled	100	1000	32, 90	Polarizer/OMT	Yes	Balloon
EBEX	-	EBEX	-	Future	25	1000	150-450	Bolometer	Yes	Balloon
POLARBeaR	-	POLARization of Background microwave Radiation	2012-date	Active	50	2000	150	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
BIMA	-	Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations	1986-2004	Completed	-	-	70-116, and 210-270	SIS	No	Ground
Clover	-	Clover	-	Cancelled	20	1000	97, 150 and 230	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
KUPID	-	KU-band Polarization IDentifier	2003-date	Active	100	600	12-18	HEMT	Yes	Ground
COSMOSOMAS	-	COSMOlogical Structures On Medium Angular Scales	1998-date	Active	10	200	10-18	HEMT	No	Ground
Relikt		Relikt	1983-1984	Completed			37	-	No	Satellite
SPOrt		Sky Polarization Observatory	-	Cancelled			22 -- 90	-	Yes	Satellite
BICEP2	-	Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2	2009-date	Active	21	335	150	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
KECKArray	-	Keck Array	2010-date	Active	21	335	150	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
ABS	-	Atacama B-mode Search	2011-date	Active	25	200	145	Bolometer	Yes	Ground
SPIDER	-	Spider	-	Future	10	300	90, 150, 280		Yes	Balloon
CLASS	-	Cosmology Large-Angular Scale Surveyor	-	Future	-	-	40, 90, 150		Yes	Ground
PIPER	-	Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer	-	Future	-	-	200, 270, 350, 800		Yes	Balloon
Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum Experiments
ARCADE	Sky Maps	Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission	2001-2006	Completed	n/a	n/a	3, 5, 7, 10, 30, 90	HEMT	No	Balloon
TRIS	-	CMB Spectrum Experiments	1994-2000	Completed			0.6, 0.82, 2.5 GHz		No	Ground
Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Experiments
APEX-SZ	-	Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment	2007-date	Active	-	-	150, 217	Bolometer	No	Ground
SuZIE	-	Sunyaev-Zeldovich Infrared Experiment	1996-date	Active	1000	3700	150, 220, 350	Bolometer	No	Ground
SZA	-	Sunyaev- Zeldovich Array	2004-date	Active	-	-	26-36 and 85-115	Interferometer	No	Ground
MUSTANG		MUltiplexed Squid/Tes Array for Ninety Gigahertz	2007-date	Active	6000	40000	90	Bolometer	No	Ground
MUSTANG2		MUltiplexed Squid/Tes Array for Ninety Gigahertz 2	-	Future	1300	40000	90	Bolometer	No	Ground