The BaR-SPOrt experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4843, Issue , 2002, Pages 324-335

  Zannoni, M ^a,b,i   Cortiglioni, S ^a   Bernardi, G ^a   Carretti, E ^a   Cecchini, S ^a   Macculi, C ^a   Morelli, E ^a   Sbarra, C ^a   Ventura, G ^a   Nicastro, L ^a   Monari, J ^a   Poloni, M ^a   Poppi, S ^a   Natale, V ^a   Baralis, M ^h   Peverini, O ^h   Tascone, R ^h   Virone, G ^h   Boscaleri, A ^a   Pascale, E ^a   Boella, G ^b   Bonometto, S ^b   Gervasi, M ^b   Sironi, G ^b   Tucci, M ^c   Nesti, R ^d   Fabbri, R ^e   De Bernardis, P ^f   De Petris, M ^f   Masi, S ^f   Sazhin, M V ^g   Vinyajkin, E N ^h   more..

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h Univ di Roma La Sapienza ^*

ⁱ INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMB; Instrument; LDB; Polarization

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIO BALLOONS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPACE STATIONS; TELESCOPES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB);

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0038077553     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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