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Arcminute Microkelvin ImagerThe Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI) (Information courtesy of this page) The Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI) is designed principally to image secondary anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background at higher angular resolution than the Very Small Array. It consists of two interferometric arrays sited at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, both operating in the frequency range 12-18 GHz. The main goals of the project are to carry out a survey of clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (the scattering of the CMB off gas in the cluster), with follow-up observations at other wavelengths, and to do pointed observations of individual clusters. AMI will also make very high resolution observations of the primordial CMB power spectrum. The official webpage for the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager is currently quite out of date.
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