| In early 2003, the Boomerang telescope flew for fifteen days over the Antarctic continent suspended from a balloon at an approximate altitude of 100,000 feet. Using a cryogenically cooled, bolometric receiver, it made measurements of the intensity and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation in two overlapping sky patches of 100 and 800 square degrees. A spatial analysis of this data provides confirmation of previous measurements of the multipole angular power spectrum of the temperature anisotropies of the CMB. This data also provides power spectra of the polarization and temperature-polarization correlations that are competitive with previous experiments. Cosmological parameters estimated from these angular power spectra are consistent with a "standard" Lambda-CDM universe where inflation was adiabatic. |
