Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at MIT:
Tuesday November 5, 1996
2:30 pm
CTP Seminar Room
"Future Observations of Anisotropy and Polarization
of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Peter Timbie
Wisconsin/Brown
Abstract:
I will describe two experiments now under development to observe the
CMB. MSAM2 (Medium-Scale Anisotropy Measurement) promises to constrain
the presence of the first Doppler peak in the CMB power spectrum.
The second, called POLAR, aims at detecting polarization at large
angular scales, primarily as a test of the ionization history of the
Universe.