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BICEP: a large angular scale CMB polarimeter
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- We describe the design and expected performance of BICEP, a millimeter wave receiver designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. BICEP uses an array of polarization sensitive bolometers operating at 100 and 150 GHz to measure polarized signals over a 20 degree field of view with 1 degree resolution. BICEP is designed with particular attention to systematic effects which can potentially degrade the polarimetric fidelity of the observations. BICEP is optimized to detect the faint signature of a primordial gravitational wave background which is a generic prediction of inflationary cosmologies.
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- Database :
- OAIster
- Notes :
- application/pdf, BICEP: a large angular scale CMB polarimeter, English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1091067423
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource