M. Depetris et al., MITO - A PROCEDURE FOR CBA MEASUREMENTS AND A SEARCH FOR COSMIC STRINGS, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. C, Geophysics and space physics, 18(3), 1995, pp. 305-324
MITO (Millimetric and Infrared Testa Grigia Observatory) is a 3 m tele
scope dedicated to the study of Cosmic Background Anisotropies. It is
located at 3500 m above sea-level at Plateau Rosa, Cervinia. We descri
be the Observatory and discuss two on-going research programs: a clean
ing procedure in order to remove galactic dust signals from cosmologic
al data and a search for cosmic strings toward double-lensed quasars.
Both the programs will be carried out by means of a He-3 photometer op
erating at the frequencies of 5, 10, 12, 30 cm(-1).