Qubic experiment

Qubic is a ground-based project of observational cosmology dedicated to measuring the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies. Qubic (Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology) is an international collaboration between France, Italy, U.K. and U.S.A., that results from the merging of the BRAIN and MBI collaborations. The Qubic instrument is based on bolometric interferometry, a novel technology that is a promising alternative to direct imaging. The collaboration plans to install a first module of the final instrument at the Antarctica Concordia Station in 2011.

External links

The official website of the QUBIC experiment

Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)

Discovery of CMB radiation List of CMB experiments Timeline of CMB astronomy

Effects	Cosmic variance Diffusion damping Sachs–Wolfe effect Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect Recombination Thomson scattering	Full-sky temperature map taken by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)

Space-based experiments	COBE CMBPol Planck RELIKT-1 SPOrt WMAP

Balloon experiments	Archeops BOOMERanG EBEX MAXIMA QMAP Spider TopHat

Ground-based experiments	ABS ACBAR ACT AMI AMiBA APEX-SZ BICEP BICEP2 BIMA CAPMAP CAT CBI Clover COSMOSOMAS DASI FOCUS GUBBINS Keck Array MAT OCRA OVRO QUaD QUIET QUIJOTE RGWBT Saskatoon SPT SZA Tenerife VSA

Qubic experiment

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