QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Hinderks, J. R., Ade, P., Bock, J., Bowden, M., Brown, M. L., Cahill, G., Carlstrom, J. E., Castro, P. G., Church, S., Culverhouse, T., Friedman, R., Ganga, K., Gear, W. K., Gupta, S., Harris, J., Haynes, V., Keating, B. G., Kovac, J., Kirby, E., Lange, A. E., Leitch, E., Mallie, O. E., Melhuish, S., Memari, Y., Murphy, A., Orlando, A., Schwarz, R., O'Sullivan, C., Piccirillo, L., Pryke, C., Rajguru, N., Rusholme, B., Taylor, A. N., Thompson, K. L., Tucker, C., Turner, A. H., Wu, E. Y. S., Zemcov, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2009
• Subjects: cosmic microwave background; instrumentation: polarimeters; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Antarctic; Austral; South Pole; Antarc*; South pole; United States Antarctic Program
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1221

We describe the QUaD experiment, a millimeter-wavelength polarimeter designed to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from a site at the South Pole. The experiment comprises a 2.64 m Cassegrain telescope equipped with a cryogenically cooled receiver containing an array of 62 polarization-se...