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., Sullivan, C. O', 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.
• Other Authors: APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), QUaD
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: cosmic microwave background; instrumentation: polarimeters; [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]; [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]; [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Austral; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00288078; https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1221

23 pages, 36 figures 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-sensitive bolometers. The focal plane contains pixels at two different frequency bands, 100 GHz and 150 GHz, with angular resolutions of 5' and 3farcm5, respectively. The high angular resolution allows observation of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies over a wide range of scales. The instrument commenced operation in early 2005 and collected science data during three successive Austral winter seasons of observation.