Measuring the cosmic microwave background polarization with the QUaD experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 84-94

  Bowden, M ^a   Taylor, A N ^b   Ganga, K M ^c   Ade, P A R ^a   Bock, J J ^e,f   Cahill, G ^g   Carlstrom, J E ^h   Church, S E ^d   Gear, W K ^a   Hinderks, J R ^d   Hu, W ^h   Keating, B ^f   Kovac, J ^f   Lange, A E ^f   Leitch, E M ^h   Maffei, B ^a   Mallie, O ^a   Melhuish, S J ^a   Murphy, J A ^g   Pisano, G ^a   Piccirillo, L ^a   Pryke, C ^h   Rusholme, B A ^d   O'Sullivan, C ^g   Thompson, K ^d   Zemcov, M ^a   more..

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology; Polarization; Sub mm telescope

Indexed keywords

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB); RADIATION FIELDS; RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT; SUB-MM TELESCOPES;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSMIC RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 10444280835     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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