The Keck Array: A pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sheehy, C D ^a,b   Ade, P A R ^c   Aikin, R W ^d   Amiri, M ^e   Benton, S ^f   Bischoff, C ^g   Bock, J J ^d,h   Bonetti, J A ^h   Brevik, J A ^d   Burger, B ^e   Dowell, C D ^d,h   Duband, L ⁱ   Filippini, J P ^d   Golwala, S R ^d   Halpern, M ^e   Hasselfield, M ^e   Hilton, G ^j   Hristov, V V ^d   Irwin, K ^j   Kaufman, J P ^k   Keating, B G ^k   Kovac, J M ^g   Kuo, C L ^l,m   Lange, A E ^d   Leitch, E M ^a   Lueker, M ^d,h   Netterfield, C B ^f   Nguyen, H T ^d,h   Ogburn Iv, R W ^l,m   Orlando, A ^d   Pryke, C L ^b   Reintsema, C ^j   Richter, S ^g   Ruhl, J E ⁿ   Runyan, M C ^d   Staniszewski, Z ^d,h   Stokes, S ^l,m   Sudiwala, R ^c   Teply, G ^d   Thompson, K L ^l,m   Tolan, J E ^l,m   Turner, A D ^h   Wilson, P ^h   Wong, C L ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA-COUPLED; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; LIQUID HELIUM CRYOSTATS; PULSE TUBES; SOUTH POLE;

ANTENNAS; ASTRONOMY; CRYOSTATS; INFRARED DETECTORS; POLARIMETERS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

DETECTORS;

EID: 77956199524     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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