Optimised polarimeter configurations for measuring the Stokes parameters of the cosmic microwave background radiation

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 579-584

  Couchot, F ^a   Delabrouille, J ^b,c   Kaplan, J ^d   Revenu, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations; Instrumentation: polarimeters; Methods: observational; Polarisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346125092     PISSN: 03650138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/aas:1999191     Document Type: Article

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