Data Analysis for the E and B EXperiment and Instrumentation Development for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry ...
The E and B EXperiment (EBEX) was a balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) while simultaneously characterizing Galactic dust emission. The instrument was based on a two-mirror ambient temperature Gregorian-Dragone telescope coupled with...
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Columbia University
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8794h01 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8794H01 |
| Summary: | The E and B EXperiment (EBEX) was a balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) while simultaneously characterizing Galactic dust emission. The instrument was based on a two-mirror ambient temperature Gregorian-Dragone telescope coupled with cooled refractive optics to a kilo-pixel array of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometeric detectors. To achieve sensitivity to both the CMB signal and Galactic foregrounds, EBEX observed in three signal bands centered on 150, 250, and 410 GHz. Polarimetry was achieved via a stationary wire-grid polarizer and a continuously rotating achromatic half-wave plate (HWP) based on a superconducting magnetic bearing (SMB). EBEX launched from McMurdo station, Antarctica on December 29, 2012 and collected ~ 1.3 TB of data during 11 days of observation. This thesis is presented in two Parts. Part I reviews the data analysis we performed to transform the raw EBEX data into maps of temperature and polarization sky signals, ... |
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