Useful papers on experimental cosmology

(mostly CMB related)

APEX telescope in Atacama, Chile

General

SZ Effect

• Birkenshaw review paper
• Carlstrom et al review paper
• Carlstrom et al (2001)

Polarization

• Kosowsky introduction paper
• Wayne Hu and Martin White primer

Recent CMB experiments

ACBAR

• Instrumentation
• Cosmological parameters
• Angular power spectrum

APEX SZ

• Schwan's conference paper

BICEP

• Overview paper

BIMA/OVRO

• Preliminary anisotropy results
• SZ imaging of high z clusters

DASI

• Instrumentation
• Results

MAXIMA/MAXIPOL

• MAXIMA overview
• MAXIMA results
• MAXIPOL overview

SuZIE

• Bill's thesis

WMAP

• Results
• Angular power spectrum
• Cosmological parameters
• Parameter estimation methodology
• Implications for inflation
• Homogeneity
• Gaussianity
• Data processing methodology

Instrumentation

Bolometers

• Richards review paper
• Multiplexed TES bolometers, Benford et al

Focal plane arrays

• Norton review paper

Other

Supernovae

• Perlmutter group (1999)
• High-Z group (1998)

Cosmology and particle physics

Kamionkowski (2002)