The QUIJOTE-CMB Experiment: Studying the polarisation of the Galactic and cosmological microwave emissions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8444, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rubino Martin J A ^a,b   Rebolo, R ^a,b,h   Aguiar, M ^a   Genova Santos R ^a,b   Gomez Renasco F ^a   Herreros, J M ^a   Hoyland, R J ^a   Lopez Caraballo C ^a,b   Pelaez Santos, A E ^a,b   De La Rosa, V Sanchez ^a   Vega Moreno, A ^a   Viera Curbelo, T ^a   Martinez Gonzalez E ^c   Barreiro, R B ^c   Casas, F J ^c   Diego, J M ^c   Fernandez Cobos R ^c   Herranz, D ^c   Lopez Caniego M ^c   Ortiz, D ^c   Vielva, P ^c   Artal, E ^d   Aja, B ^d   Cagigas, J ^d   Cano, J L ^d   De La Fuente, L ^d   Mediavilla, A ^d   Teran J V ^d   Villa, E ^d   Piccirillo, L ^e   Battye, R ^e   Blackhurst, E ^e   Brown, M ^e   Davies, R D ^e   Davis, R J ^e   Dickinson, C ^e   Harper, S ^e   Maffei, B ^e   McCulloch, M ^e   Melhuish, S ^e   Pisano, G ^e   Watson, R A ^e   Hobson, M ^f   Grainge, K ^f   Lasenby, A ^f,g   Saunders, R ^f   Scott, P ^f   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d Departamento de Ingenieria de COMunicaciones (DICOM)   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmological parameters; Early universe; Instrumentation; Polarisation; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCALE; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; EARLY UNIVERSE; FREQUENCY RANGES; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MULTI FREQUENCY; PLANCK MISSION; TENERIFE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84871768534     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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