The EBEX experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5543, Issue , 2004, Pages 320-331

  Oxley, P ^a   Ade, P ^b   Baccigalupi, C ^c   DeBernardis, P ^d   Cho, H M ^e   Devlin, M J ^f   Hanany, S ^a   Johnson, B R ^a   Jones, T ^a   Lee, A T ^e,g   Matsumura, T ^a   Miller, A D ^h   Milligan, M ^a   Renbarger, T ^a   Spieler, H G ^g   Stompor, R ^g   Tucker, G S ⁱ   Zaldarriaga, M ^j  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Bolometers; CMB; EBEX; Magnetic bearing; Polarimetry; TES

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; BOLOMETERS; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; RADIATION DETECTORS;

CMB; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB) RADIATION; EBEX EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC BEARING; TES; TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS (TES);

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 20144363337     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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