Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association

Eight of the nine BIMA antennas (center) as now incorporated into CARMA

The Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) was a collaboration of the Universities of California, Illinois, and Maryland that built and operated the eponymously named BIMA radio telescope array.^[1] Originally (1986) the premier imaging instrument in the world at millimeter wavelengths, the array was located at the UCB Hat Creek Observatory. In early 2005 nine of its ten antennas were moved to the Inyo Mountains and combined with antennas from the Caltech Owens Valley Radio Observatory and eight telescopes operating at a wavelength of 3.5 millimeters from the University of Chicago Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA), to form CARMA, currently the largest millimeter array in the world for radio astronomy.

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Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)
Discovery of CMB radiation Timeline of CMB astronomy
Effects	Cosmic variance Diffusion damping Recombination Sachs–Wolfe effect Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect Thomson scattering	9-year WMAP image (2012) of the CMB.
Experiments	Space COBE Planck RELIKT-1 WMAP Balloon Archeops ARCADE BOOMERanG EBEX MAXIMA QMAP Spider TopHat Ground ABS ACBAR ACT AMI AMiBA APEX ATCA BICEP BICEP2 BICEP3 BIMA CAPMAP CAT CBI CLASS COSMOSOMAS DASI Keck Array MAT OVRO POLARBEAR QUaD QUBIC QUIET QUIJOTE Saskatoon SPT SZA Tenerife VSA