The status of the Quijote multi-frequency instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

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

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f IDOM sa   (Spain)

^g Guillermo Herrera   (Spain)

Author keywords

B modes; CMBr; Foregrounds; Instrumentation; Mapping; Polarization; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; B-MODES; CALIBRATION SOURCE; CELESTIAL SOURCES; CMBR; CORRUGATED FEEDHORNS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; CURRENT STATUS; DETECTION SYSTEM; FOREGROUNDS; GALACTIC EMISSION; GIGABIT ETHERNET NETWORKS; HELIUM GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY TESTING; LABVIEW; MULTI FREQUENCY; OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT; OPTIMUM SENSITIVITY; POLAR MODULATORS; POLAR PARAMETERS; ROTARY JOINT; TELESCOPE CONTROL; TIME SIGNALS; TIME STAMPS; TOTAL POWER;

ASTRONOMY; INFRARED DETECTORS; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; USER INTERFACES;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84872054674     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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