The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) was the first interferometer
to measure fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Its
first results, published in 1996, were the highest resultion CMB
detection at that time, and showed that the rise in fluctuation power
towards scales of ~1 degree (l ~ 200) measured by the Saskatoon
experiment were matched by a decline in power at smaller angles (l =
500-700), thus showing the existence of the long-predicted acoustic
peak in the CMB power spectrum. Further results were published in
1999. The telescope was turned off and partly dismantled in 2000.
Information about CAT
- Some
details about the CAT
- Press
release describing first CAT results
- O'Sullivan et al 1995 The first CAT
observations.
- Scott
et al 1996
The
first CAT CMB power spectrum results.
- Baker et al
1999 The second CAT CMB results.
The successor telescope to the CAT is the The Very
Small Array, a 14-element interferometer based in Tenerife.
Links to elsewhere
- Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
(Cambridge, UK).
- Cambridge Astronomy (Cambridge,
UK).
- The Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge,
UK).
4748th access since 1996 March 28th
The CAT group at MRAO. 27/3/96
Paul Scott/MRAO, Cambridge, UK/P.F.Scott@mrao.cam.ac.uk
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