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 sub-systems operating at 90, 150 and 220 GHz, each comprising a telescope and a focal plane of horn-coupled backgroun...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2005
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Online Access: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/36488/ https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/36488/1/Maffei%202005.pdf https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2005039 |
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 sub-systems 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 ~ 0.005. |
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