BICEP: A large angular scale CMB polarimeter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4843, Issue , 2002, Pages 284-295

  Keating, Brian G ^a   Ade, Peter A ^b   Bock, James J ^c   Hivon, Eric ^d   Holzapfel, William L ^e   Lange, Andrew E ^a   Nguyen, Hien ^b   Yoon, Ki Won ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background instrumentation; Gravitational wave detection; Polarization sensitive bolometers

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; COSMIC RAYS; GRAVITY WAVES; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB);

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 0038077558     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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