ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 01 01 17 1 v 1 1 1 Ja n 20 01 PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE COSMIC BACKGROUND IMAGER
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The Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) is a 13-element interferometer designed to image intrinsic anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on arcminute scales. A review of the capabilities of the instrument is presented, together with a discussion of observations which have been taken over the past 9 months from the Atacama desert of Chile. We present preliminary high-resolution mosaiced images of the CMB obtained from recent CBI data and discuss topics which the CBI will address in the near future.
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