Measuring the cosmic microwave background polarization with the QUaD experiment

We look at anticipated science results achievable with QUaD, a ground-based experiment to measure the polarization of the CMB from the South Pole, and describe the features that will enable it to measure this weak polarized signal. We show that QUaD can make a high resolution measurement of the pola...

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Published in:SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based Telescopes
Main Authors: Bowden, M., Taylor, A. N., Ganga, K. M., Ade, P. A R, Bock, J. J., Cahill, G., Carlstrom, J. E., Church, S. E., Gear, W. K., Hinderks, J. R., Hu, W., Keating, B., Kovac, J., Lange, A. E., Leitch, E. M., Maffei, B., Mallie, O., Melhuish, S. J., Murphy, J. A., Pisano, G., Piccirillo, L., Pryke, C., Rusholme, B. A., O'Sullivan, C., Thompson, K., Zemcov, M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Cosmic microwave background
Cosmology
Polarization
Sub-mm telescope
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/b0eedfec-2ef6-4dae-b4f4-391a916b7bfb
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551110
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Summary:We look at anticipated science results achievable with QUaD, a ground-based experiment to measure the polarization of the CMB from the South Pole, and describe the features that will enable it to measure this weak polarized signal. We show that QUaD can make a high resolution measurement of the polarization signals on small angular scales. This will lead to tighter constraints on the key cosmological parameters and could also put new limits on the inflationary model.

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