CLOVER: The CMB Polarization Observer

• Main Authors: Maffei, B., Ade, P.A.R., Calderon, C., Challinor, A.D., de Bernardis, P., Dunlop, L., Gear, W.K., Giraud-Héraud, Y., Goldie, D.J., Grainge, K.J.B., Isaak, K.G., Johnson, B., Jones, M.E., Lasenby, A.N., Mauskopf, P.D., Melhuish, S.J., Orlando, A., Piccirillo, L., Pisano, G., Taylor, A.C., Withington, S., Yassin, G.
• Other Authors: AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), M. Giard; F. Casoli; F. Paletou
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2004
• Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]; [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00025439; https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2005039

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