Miller Lab Columbia

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Miller Lab - Columbia

• Currently in the lab
• The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array (SZA)
• Collaboration with Chicago, OVRO, MSFC
• Eight 3.5 m diameter dishes
• 30 GHz Receivers (cluster survey)
• 90 GHz Receivers (detailed cluster observations)
• Broadband 8 GHz correlator
• 12 deg2 survey to begin end of 2003
• SZA to be integrated with OVRO and BIMA
  telescopes (CARMA)

• Upcoming
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope(ACT)
• Multi-institution collaboration
• 6 m single-dish telescope
• Large array of sensitive bolometers
• Observing frequencies 150, 217, 270 GHz.
• Located at 17,000 ft. altitude in Atacama desert
  in Chile
• Observe small-scale CMB anisotropy, SZE effect,
  OV effect, CMB lensing

Galaxy Cluster
SZA
ACT