Former Projects:
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- U2 Anisotropy : An experiment done in the late 1970's
on the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background.
This experiment discovered the dipole anisotropy of the CMB.
It was a precursor to the COBE DMR experiment that found
a whole spectrum of anisotropies in the CMB.
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- Balloon-Borne Anisotropy : An experiment done in the 1980's
on the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background.
This experiment made a map of the CMB first order (dipole) anisotropy
and set stringent limits on higher order CMB anisotropies.
It was a test bed and precursor for the 90 GHz (3-mm wavelength)
of the COBE DMR experiment that found a whole spectrum of anisotropies
in the CMB.
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- CMB Polarization : An experiment done in the 1980's
on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
This experiment set stringent limits CMB polarization.
The first experiment was a thesis for Professor Phil Lubin.
The second experiment was a thesis for Professor Philip Melese d'Hospital.
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- CMB Spectrum Observations
This was a series of instruments
and observations to measure the long wavelength
spectrum of the cosmic microwave background.
Balloon-borne Cosmic Ray Experiments were a series of
balloon-borne superconducting magnetic spectrometers designed
search for antimatter in the Universe and measure the abundance
and energy spectra of Galactic cosmic rays.
Astromag was a superconducting magnetic spectrometer designed
to operate on Space Station Freedom. The restructing of the Space Station
program left us without a place to be attached.
A revamped version spectrometer using rare-earth permanent magnets
is now in progress.
The new project is called AMS
and its team is lead by Professor Samuel C.C. Ting of MIT.