White Mountain
The BEAST Lab at White Mountain
The White Mountain Research Station (WMRS), located in the mountains to the East of Bishop, CA provides the perfect location for many of our astrophysical observations and data collection equipment. WMRS itself is funded by the University of California Campuses which each campus being able to use the facility for its own research objectives. The UCSB Experimental Cosmology group primarily use the Barcroft Station of the facility with several labs and observational equipment being located there. More information about the entire WMRS facility can be found on their website at www.WMRS.edu.
The B-Machine project was moved to the WMRS in Summer 2008 to collect data helping us to map the microwave sky. The B-Machine works every night, gathering the data to produce a final image of the microwave sky. Currently the equipment is shutdown for the winter months however it will become functional again in Summer 2009.
To monitor the station during the winter months when it is often unaccessible, we have both a remote weather station and webcam on site. You can view the live camera and weather data or scroll through archived data using the submenu on the left.
