Abstract
We describe the scientific rationale and the preliminary calibrations of the OLIMPO experiment: a 2.6 m stratospheric balloon borne telescope, to be flown in 2008 in a long duration circumpolar flight. One of the main goals of the experiment is to map with high sensitivity and resolution at mm and submm wavelengths the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in many clusters of galaxies, both in the Northern and in the Southern hemisphere.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 507-512 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP |
Issue number | 647 SP |
State | Published - Jun 2007 |
Event | 18th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research - Visby, Sweden Duration: 3 Jun 2007 → 7 Jun 2007 |
Keywords
- Clusters of galaxies
- Cosmology
- Long duration stratospheric balloons
- mm/sub-mm astronomy