QUIJOTE telescope design and fabrication

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Gomez, Alberto ^a   Murga, Gaizka ^a   Etxeita, Borja ^a   Sanquirce, Rubén ^a   Rebolo, Rafael ^b   Rubiño Martin, Jose Alberto ^b   Herreros, José Miguel ^b   Hoyland, Roger ^b   Gomez, Francisca ^b   Genova, Ricardo T ^b   Piccirillo, Lucio ^c   Maffei, Bruno ^c   Watson , Robert ^c  

^a IDOM sa   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Aluminum cast mirrors; Assembly; CMB; Design; Fabrication; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCALE; CMB; CNC MACHINING; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FAST TRACK CONSTRUCTION; FREQUENCY RANGES; LASER TRACKER; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MOULD CASTING; OPTO-MECHANICS; SECONDARY MIRROR; START-UPS; TELESCOPE DESIGN; TENERIFE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ALIGNMENT; ALUMINUM; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICATION; MIRRORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958141668     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857286     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Rubiño-Martín J.A., "The QUIJOTE CMB Experiment," Proceedings of the VIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), (2008).
2. QUIJOTE experiment web-page. www.iac.es/project/cmb/quijote.
3. Rebolo R., "Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background," International School on Astroparticle Physics, (2008).
4. Rebolo R., "A new experiment to measure the polarization of CMB: QUIJOTE," 2008 Workshop on Modern Cosmology, (2008).