Polarization observations with the cosmic background imager

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5697, 2004, Pages 836-844

  Readhead, A C S ^a   Myers, S T ^b   Pearson, T J ^a   Sievers, J L ^a,c   Mason, B S ^d   Contaldi, C R ^c   Bond, J R ^c   Bustos, R ^e   Altamirano, P ^f   Achermann, C ^f   Bronfman, L ^f   Cartstrom, J E ^g   Cartwright, J K ^a,g   Casassus, S ^f   Dickinson, C ^a   Holzapfel, W L ^h   Kovac, J M ^a,g   Leitch, E M ^g   May, J ^f   Padin, S ^a,g   Pogosyan, D ^c,i   Pospieszalski, M ^j   Pryke, C ^g   Reeves, R ^e   Shepherd, M C ^a   Torres, S ^e   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d NRAO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^j NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION;

COSMOLOGY; E-MODE POLARIZATION; INTENSITY SPECTRUM;

COSMIC RAYS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; GEOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; POLARIZATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 7444224768     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105598     Document Type: Article

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67. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Kavli Operating Institute, which made the polarization upgrade possible, and thank B. and S. Rawn, Jr., for their continuing support. We are also grateful for the support of M. and R. Linde, C. and S. Drinkward, and the provost, president and PMA division chairman of the California Institute of Technology. This work was supported by the NSF under grants AST 9413935, 9802989, 0098734, and 0206416. The computing facilities at CITA were funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. J.R.B., C.R.C., J.L.S., and D.P. acknowledge support from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Natural Science and Engineering Research Council at CITA. S.C. acknowledges support by Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) grant 1030805. RB was supported partially by Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT). L.B., S.C, and J.M. acknowledge support from the Chilean Center for Astrophysics Programa Fondo de Investigación Avaraada en Areas (FONDAP) No. 15010003. S.T. acknowledges support by grant Milenio ICM P02-049. J.E.C., J.K.C., E.M.L., and C.P. acknowledge support from NSF grant OPP-0094541 to the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, an NSF Physics Frontier Center. We thank CONICYT for granting permission to operate within the Chanjnantor Scientific Preserve in Chile, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Central Development Lab for developing the High Electron Mobility Transistor amplifiers used in this project and assisting with production. We thank N. Oyarce, W. Araya, and J. Cortes for their dedicated work in operating the CBI.