Welcome!

Welcome to UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group. We are an Experimental Astophysics Group primarily focused on studies of the early universe.

Currently active projects include the ESA-NASA Planck mission, COFE (a balloon borne CMB foregrounds experiment), the Bmachine prototype (ground based CMB polarization), ARCADE (Balloon borne CMB spectrum) and TOSS (the Transient Optical Sky Survey).

We also have an active education and outreach program.

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Planck was successfully launched!

Planck launch 6:12 AM Pacific Thur May 14

Live Planck launch feed: http://www.videocorner.tv/

We are located at:

Experimental Cosmology Group
Physics Department
University of California,
Santa Barbara
805.893.8418

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