CMB observations with the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) Interferometer

Contaldi, C. R.; Bond, J. R.; Pogosyan, D.; Mason, B. S.; Myers, S. T.; Pearson, T. J.; Pen, U. L.; Prunet, S.; Readhead, A. C.; Ruetalo, M. I.; Sievers, J. L.; Wadsley, J. W.; Zhang, P. J.

CMB observations with the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) Interferometer

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We review the recently published results from the CBI's first season of observations. Angular power spectra of the CMB were obtained from deep integrations of 3 single fields covering a total of 3 deg^2 and 3 shallower surveys of overlapping (mosaiced) fields covering a total of 40 deg^2. The observations show a damping of the anisotropies at high-l as expected from the standard scenarios of recombination. We present parameter estimates obtained from the data and discuss the significance of an excess at l>2000 observed in the deep fields.
4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the XVIII IAP Colloquium `On the nature of dark energy', Paris, 1-5 July 2002