Bicep Array - UMN

Bicep Array is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiment that will begin observations from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in early 2020. As the next stage of the Bicep/Keck series of experiments, Bicep Array will replace the five receivers of the Keck Array with four much larger receivers. This page details the activities of the group at the University of Minnesota in the year leading up to deployment of the experiment, including the assembly of the new telescope mount at UMN and the integration of the drive system, controllers, and receivers.

For updates, take a look at the Blog

A live webcam of the UMN high bay and the assembly process can be found on the sidebar

Recent Posts:

• Mount Construction Timelapse - As our first summer deployment and opportunity to upgrade BA in two years (since its initial deployment) imminently approaches, we can take some time to look back on what it’s taken for us to get here. 2019 was a flurry of activity in the UMN high bay, but we may attempt to reduce this effort […]
• Update from the South Pole - It’s been a couple of weeks since our last update and they’ve been busy ones. As of our last update, we’d just started to cool down the BA1 cryostat for the first time at the South Pole. After about 2 weeks of cooling down to its 4K base temperature, we were finally able to cycle […]