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BISOU: a balloon project to measure the CMB spectral distortions

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(2021)cite arxiv:2111.00246Comment: 12 pages. To be published on the proceedings of the 16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories (MG16) - 5-9 July 2021. Online Conference, Italy. http://www.icra.it/mg/mg16/.

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The BISOU (Balloon Interferometer for Spectral Observations of the Universe) project aims to study the viability and prospects of a balloon-borne spectrometer, pathfinder of a future space mission dedicated to the measurements of the CMB spectral distortions. We present here a preliminary concept based on previous space mission proposals, together with some sensitivity calculation results for the observation goals, showing that a 5-sigma measurement of the y-distortions is achievable.

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