miller lab - columbia
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Miller Lab - Columbia Currently in the lab…
The Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Array (SZA)
• Collaboration with Chicago, OVRO, MSFC• Eight 3.5 m diameter dishes• 30 GHz Receivers (cluster survey) • 90 GHz Receivers (detailed cluster observations)• Broadband 8 GHz correlator • 12 deg2 survey to begin end of 2003• SZA to be integrated with OVRO and BIMA telescopes (CARMA)
Upcoming…
Atacama Cosmology Telescope(ACT)
• Multi-institution collaboration• 6 m single-dish telescope• Large array of sensitive bolometers• Observing frequencies: 150, 217, 270 GHz.• Located at 17,000 ft. altitude in Atacama desert in Chile• Observe small-scale CMB anisotropy, SZE effect, OV effect, CMB lensing
Galaxy Cluster
ACT
SZA
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