Instrument, method, brightness, and polarization maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

S. Masi; P. A. R. Ade; J. J. Bock; J. R. Bond; J. Borrill; A. Boscaleri; P. Cabella; C. R. Contaldi; B. P. Crill; P. de Bernardis; G. De Gasperis; A. de Oliveira-Costa; G. De Troia; G. Di Stefano; P. Ehlers; E. Hivon; V. Hristov; A. Iacoangeli; A. H. Jaffe; W. C. Jones; T. S. Kisner; A. E. Lange; C. J. MacTavish; C. Marini Bettolo; P. Mason; P. D. Mauskopf; T. E. Montroy; F. Nati; L. Nati; P. Natoli; C. B. Netterfield; E. Pascale; F. Piacentini; D. Pogosyan; G. Polenta; S. Prunet; S. Ricciardi; G. Romeo; J. E. Ruhl; P. Santini; M. Tegmark; E. Torbet; M. Veneziani; N. Vittorio

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