A polarization sensitive bolometer array for the South Pole Telescope and measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background secondary anisotropies

• Main Author: George, Elizabeth Marie
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2013
• Subjects: Physics; Astrophysics; bolometer; cosmic microwave background; cosmology; millimeter wave detector; polarization; Transition edge sensor; Lambda; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0b2428w1; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5421jwz

Over the past several decades, measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have been a major driving force in our understanding of cosmology. Measurements of the CMB on large angular scales places tight constraints on the parameters of the Lambda-CDM cosmological model. Measurements of the...