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The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole
- Source :
- Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 167:827-833
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012.
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Abstract
- The Keck array is a new multi-camera Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeter. Each camera contains 256 polarization pairs of antenna-coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We recently deployed three of five cameras at the geographic South Pole, and plan to deploy the final two cameras in early 2012. This new telescope is an ideal instrument to search for the primordial B-mode polarization signal imprinted in the CMB by inflationary gravitational waves. We will discuss the design of the detectors and receivers, the status of current observations, and report on progress toward upgrading the instrument with the full compliment of polarized receivers.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Gravitational wave
business.industry
Cosmic microwave background
Bolometer
Detector
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy
Polarimeter
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Condensed Matter Physics
Polarization (waves)
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
law.invention
Telescope
Optics
law
General Materials Science
Transition edge sensor
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737357 and 00222291
- Volume :
- 167
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........55a0dc9de93261e4f76fb9dfd387adda