SPIDER: A balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Filippini, J P ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Amiri, M ^c   Benton, S J ^d   Bihary, R ^e   Bock, J J ^a,f   Bond, J R ^g   Bonetti, J A ^f   Bryan, S A ^e   Burger, B ^c   Chiang, H C ^h   Contaldi, C R ⁱ   Crill, B P ^a,f   Dore O ^a,f   Farhang, M ^d   Fissel, L M ^d   Gandilo, N N ^d   Golwala, S R ^a   Gudmundsson, J E ^h   Halpern, M ^c   Hasselfield, M ^c   Hilton, G ^j   Holmes, W ^f   Hristov, V V ^a   Irwin, K D ^j   Jones, W C ^h   Kuo, C L ^k   MacTavish, C J ^l   Mason, P V ^a   Montroy, T E ^e   Morford, T A ^a   Netterfield, C B ^d   O'Dea, D T ⁱ   Rahlin, A S ^h   Reintsema, C D ^j   Ruhl, J E ^e   Runyan, M C ^a   Schenker, M A ^a   Shariff, J A ^d   Soler, J D ^d   Trangsrud, A ^a   Tucker, C ^b   Tucker, R S ^a   Turner, A D ^f   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

cosmic microwave background; inflation; polarization; Spider; transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ANGULAR SCALE; ANTENNA-COUPLED BOLOMETERS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; FOCAL PLANE; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; HALF WAVEPLATE; INCOMING LIGHT; INFLATION; INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY; LARGE-FORMAT; POLARIZATION SIGNATURES; SATELLITE MISSION; SPIDER; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

ANTENNAS; ASTRONOMY; BALLOONS; BOLOMETERS; COSMOLOGY; DETECTORS; INFRARED DETECTORS; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIZATION; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

EID: 77956209585     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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