BaR-SPOrt: An experiment to measure the linearly polarized sky emission from both the cosmic microwave background and foregrounds

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 530, 2003, Pages 271-277

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

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^f MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 0242321990     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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