QMAP was a balloon experiment to measure the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It flew twice in 1996, and was used with an interlocking scan of the skies to produce CMB maps at angular scales between 0.7° and 9°.[1]

QMAP
First light1996 Edit this on Wikidata
Telescope styleballoon-borne telescope
cosmic microwave background experiment
radio telescope Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.physics.princeton.edu/cosmology/qmap/ Edit this at Wikidata

The gondola was later used for ground-based observations in the MAT/TOCO experiment.[2]

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  1. ^ Devlin, Mark; de Oliveira-Costa, Angelica; Herbig, Tom; Miller, Amber; Netterfield, Barth; Page, Lyman; Tegmark, Max (1998-12-20). "Mapping the CMB I: the first flight of the QMAP experiment". The Astrophysical Journal. 509 (2): L69–L72. arXiv:astro-ph/9808043. doi:10.1086/311769. S2CID 221609363.
  2. ^ Torbet, E.; Devlin, M. J.; Dorwart, W. B.; Herbig, T.; et al. (1999). "A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Microwave Background Made from the High Chilean Andes". The Astrophysical Journal. 521 (2): L79–L82. arXiv:astro-ph/9905100. Bibcode:1999ApJ...521L..79T. doi:10.1086/312197. S2CID 16534514.