Clover: The CMB polarization observer
We present a new, fully-funded ground-based instrument designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The concept is based on three independent subsystems operating at 90, 150 and 220 GHz, each comprising a telescope and a focal plane of horn-coupled background...
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Format: | Conference Object |
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2016
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2005039 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:88a502c1-6e47-4564-818d-28b08a4a00ca |
Summary: | We present a new, fully-funded ground-based instrument designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The concept is based on three independent subsystems operating at 90, 150 and 220 GHz, each comprising a telescope and a focal plane of horn-coupled background-limited bolometers. This highly-sensitive experiment, planned to be based at Dome C station in Antarctica, is optimised to produce very low systematic effects. It will allow the detection of the CMB polarization over angular multipoles 20 < l < 1000 accurately enough to measure the B-mode signature from gravitational waves to a lensing-confusion-limited tensor-to-scalar ratio r similar to 0.005. |
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