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Measuring the cosmic microwave background polarization with the QUaD experiment

Authors :
O. E. Mallie
Erik M. Leitch
Bruno Maffei
Simon J. Melhuish
G. Cahill
C. Pryke
Michael Zemcov
Ben Rusholme
John M Kovac
Lucio Piccirillo
Walter Kieran Gear
Peter A. R. Ade
John E. Carlstrom
Brian Keating
John Anthony Murphy
J. Hinderks
Andrew E. Lange
Giampaolo Pisano
M. Bowden
Créidhe O'Sullivan
Ken Ganga
Sarah E. Church
Wayne Hu
Keith L. Thompson
James J. Bock
Andy Taylor
Oschmann, Jacobus M.
Source :
SPIE Proceedings.
Publication Year :
2004
Publisher :
SPIE, 2004.

Abstract

We look at anticipated science results achievable with QUaD, a ground-based experiment to measure the polarization of the CMB from the South Pole, and describe the features that will enable it to measure this weak polarized signal. We show that QUaD can make a high resolution measurement of the polarization signals on small angular scales. This will lead to tighter constraints on the key cosmological parameters and could also put new limits on the inflationary model.

Details

ISSN :
0277786X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
SPIE Proceedings
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1243dab706885c55054c017db6661b59
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551110