Polarimetry from the Stratosphere with Spider and BLASTPol

• Main Author: Shariff, Jamil Aly
• Other Authors: Netterfield, Calvin B, Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Cosmic Microwave Background; Inflation; Instrumentation; Molecular Clouds; Polarization; Scientific Ballooning; 0596; Pivot; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/71343

This thesis presents the hardware development and flight performance of two balloon-borne experiments. The Spider experiment is a millimetre-wavelength polarimeter designed to measure B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background at degree scales. This pattern is the imprint of the primordi...