The Large-scale polarization explorer : LSPE

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
• Main Authors: S. Aiola, G. Amico, E. Battistelli, A. Bau', P. de Bernardis, A. Boscaleri, A. Coppolecchia, A. Cruciani, F. Cuttaia, A. D' Addabbo, G. D'Alessandro, S. De Gregori, M. De Petris, L. Fiorineschi, E. Franceschi, M. Gervasi, D. Goldie, A. Gregorio, V. Haynes, L. Lamagna, B. Maffei, S. Masi, N. M. Wah, G. Morgante, F. Nati, L. Pagano, A. Passerini, O. Peverini, F. Piacentini, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, S. Ricciardi, P. Rissone, G. Romeo, M. Salatino, M. Sandri, A. Schillaci, L. Stringhetti, A. Tartari, R. Tascone, L. Terenzi, E. Tommasi, F. Villa, G. Virone, S. Withington, A. Zacchei, M. Zannoni, P. Battaglia, M. Bersanelli, F. Cavaliere, F. Del Torto, C. Franceschet, N. Krachmalnicoff, D. Maino, A. Mennella, M. Tomasi
• Other Authors: I.S. McLean, S.K. Ramsay, H. Takami, P. de Bernardi, M. De Petri, V. Hayne, N.M. Wah
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: SPIE 2012
• Subjects: Bolometer; Cosmic microwave backgorund; Polarimeter; Polarization; Radiometer; Stratospheric balloons; Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica; Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale; Curl; polar night
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/205159; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926095

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...