Colafrancesco, SergioSergioColafrancescoMasi, SSMasiCalvo, MMCalvoConversi, LLConversi2020-09-172020-09-172005-10-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13025/1696The main objective of the OLIMPO project, a large stratospheric telescope, is the measurement of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in many clusters of galaxies during a long-duration balloon flight. We describe the OLIMPO experiment, and outline the scientific rationale of balloon-borne measurements of the effect.ANISOTROPYASI - SponsorBOOMERANGCOSMIC BACKGROUND IMAGERGALAXIESMAPSMILLIMETERRADIATIONSMALL-SCALE FLUCTUATIONSTELESCOPESballoonsclusters of galaxiescosmologymm/sub-mm astronomyconference paperhttp://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/20856/54dcce098580fe1368eeb0fc