The POLARBEAR CMB polarization experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Arnold, K ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Anthony, A E ^c   Aubin, F ^g   Boettger, D ^d   Borrill, J ^e,f   Cantalupo, C ^e   Dobbs, M A ^g   Errard, J ^h   Flanigan, D ^a   Ghribi, A ^a   Halverson, N ^c   Hazumi, M ⁱ   Holzapfel, W L ^a   Howard, J ^a   Hyland, P ^g   Jaffe, A ^j   Keating, B ^d   Kisner, T ^e   Kermish, Z ^a   Lee, A T ^a,e   Linder, E ^e   Lungu, M ^a   Matsumura, T ⁱ   Miller, N ^d   Meng, X ^a   Myers, M ^a   Nishino, H ⁱ   O'Brient, R ^a   O'Dea, D ^j   Reichardt, C ^a   Schanning, I ^d   Shimizu, A ⁱ   Shimmin, C ^a   Shimon, M ^d   Spieler, H ^e   Steinbach, B ^a   Stompor, R ^h   Suzuki, A ^a   Tomaru, T ⁱ   Tran, H T ^a   Tucker, C ^b   Quealy, E ^a   Richards, P L ^a   Zahn, O ^a,e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

ⁱ HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^j IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

antenna; bolometer; CMB; CMB polarization; millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BOLOMETERS; COSMOLOGY; INFRARED DETECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

CMB POLARIZATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; FOCAL PLANE; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; POLARIZATION EXPERIMENTS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77956211925     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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