The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy
Abstract
The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for microwave background anisotropy is the first interferometer dedicated to study the cosmic microwave background radiation at 3 mm wavelength. The choice of 3 mm is to minimize the contributions from foreground synchrotron radiation and Galactic dust emission. The initial configuration of seven 0.6 m telescopes mounted on a 6 m hexapod platform was dedicated in 2006 October on Mauna Loa, Hawaii. Scientific operations began with the detection of a number of clusters of galaxies via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We compare our data with Subaru weak-lensing data to study the structure of dark matter. We also compare our data with X-ray data to derive the Hubble constant.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0810.1871
- Bibcode:
- 2009ApJ...694.1610H
- Keywords:
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- cosmic microwave background;
- instrumentation: interferometers;
- telescopes;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- accepted for publication in ApJ (13 pages, 7 figures)