Very Small Array
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The Very Small Array was a 14-element interferometric radio telescope operating between 26 and 36 GHz that is used to study the cosmic microwave background radiation. It was a collaboration between th
The VSA ground shields
The ground shield that used to hold the VSA
The Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array experiment was a balloon-borne experiment funded by the United States NSF, NASA, and Department of Energy, and operated by an international collabora
Very Small Array
…Anisotropy Telescope. The telescope was comparable in terms of capabilities to several other CMB experiments, including the balloon-based BOOMERanG and MAXIMA, and the ground-based DASI and CBI. The telescope consists of 14 elements (yielding 91 baselines), each of which have a horn reflector antenna focusing…
The Maxima balloon is readied for launch
MAXIMA's feed horns and bolometers