The C-Band All-Sky Survey: Instrument design, status, and first-look data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  King, Oliver G ^a   Copley, Charles ^b,g   Davies, Rod ^c   Davis, Richard ^c   Dickinson, Clive ^c   Hafez, Yaser A ^d   Holler, Christian ^e   John, Jaya John ^b   Jonas, Justin L ^f   Jones, Michael E ^b   Leahy, J Patrick ^c   Muchovej, Stephen J C ^a   Pearson, Timothy J ^a   Readhead, Anthony C S ^a   Stevenson, Matthew A ^a   Taylor, Angela C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e ESSLINGEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^f RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^g HARTEBEESTHOEK RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

CMB; cosmological foregrounds; galactic emission; Polarimetry; polarized emission; synchrotron emission

Indexed keywords

CMB; COSMOLOGICAL FOREGROUNDS; GALACTIC EMISSION; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZED EMISSIONS; SYNCHROTRON EMISSION;

ASTRONOMY; DETECTORS; ELLIPSOMETRY; INFRARED DETECTORS; POLARIMETERS; SURVEYS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 77956217785     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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