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Satellite-based CMB observatories
Experiment Long Name
COBE Cosmic Background Explorer
WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Planck N/A
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SPOrt Sky Polarization Observatory

 

Balloon and Ground-based CMB experiments
Experiment Long Name
ACBAR Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver
ACME/HACME Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer/ HEMT+ ACME
ACT Atacama Cosmology Telescope
AMI Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager
AMiBA Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy
APACHE Antarctic Plateau Anisotropy CHasing Experiment
APEX-SZ Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment
ARCADE Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission
Archeops N/A
ARGO N/A
ATCA Australia Telescope Compact Array
BAM Balloon- borne Anisotropy Measurement
BEAST Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope
BICEP Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization
BIMA Berkeley Illinois Maryland Associations
BOOMERanG Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics
CAPMAP Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper
CAT Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
CBI Cosmic Background Imager
CG Cosmological Gene
Clover N/A
COSMOSOMAS N/A
COMPASS COsmic Microwave Polarization At Small Scales
DASI Degree Angular Scale Interfer-ometer
EBEX The E and B Experiment
FIRS Far Infra- Red Survey
KUPID KU-band Polarization IDentifier
MAT Mobile Anisotropy Telescope
MAXIMA Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array
MBI-B Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Interferometer
MINT Millimeter INTerferometer
MSAM Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement
PIQUE Princeton I, Q, and U Experiment
POLAR Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions
POLARBeaR POLARization of Background microwave Radiation
Polatron N/A
Python N/A
QMAP N/A
QMASK QMAP and Saskatoon (SK) Data Combination
QuaD Quest (Q and U Extra-Galactic Sub-mm Telescope) at DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferomete)
QUIET QU Imaging ExperimenT
SK Saskatoon
SPT South Pole Telescope
SuZIE Sunyaev- Zeldovich Infrared Experiment
SZA Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array
Tenerife N/A
TopHat N/A
VSA Very Small Array
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