The Large-Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE)

• Main Authors: The LSPE Collaboration, Aiola, S., Amico, G., Battaglia, P., Battistelli, E., Baù, A., de Bernardis, P., Bersanelli, M., Boscaleri, A., Cavaliere, F., Coppolecchia, A., Cruciani, A., Cuttaia, F., Addabbo, A. D', D'Alessandro, G., De Gregori, S., Del Torto, F., De Petris, M., Fiorineschi, L., Franceschet, C., Franceschi, E., Gervasi, M., Goldie, D., Gregorio, A., Haynes, V., Krachmalnicoff, N., Lamagna, L., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Masi, S., Mennella, A., Wah, Ng Ming, Morgante, G., Nati, F., Pagano, L., Passerini, A., Peverini, O., Piacentini, F., Piccirillo, L., Pisano, G., Ricciardi, S., Rissone, P., Romeo, G., Salatino, M., Sandri, M., Schillaci, A., Stringhetti, L., Tartari, A., Tascone, R., Terenzi, L., Tomasi, M., Tommasi, E., Villa, F., Virone, G., Withington, S., Zacchei, A., Zannoni, M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2012
• Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO; FOS Physical sciences; Curl; polar night
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1208.0281; https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0281

The LSPE is a balloon-borne mission aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales, and in particular to constrain the curl component of CMB polarization (B-modes) produced by tensor perturbations generated during cosmic inflation, in the very ea...