QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter
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Hinderks, James R.
Ade, Peter
Bock, James
Bowden, Melanie
Brown, Michael L.
Cahill, Gary
Carlstrom, John E.
Castro, Patricia G.
Church, Sarah
Culverhouse, Thomas
Friedman, Robert
Ganga, Ken
Gear, Walter K.
Gupta, Sujata
Harris, J.
Haynes, V.
Keating, Brian G.
Kirby, E.
Lange, Andrew E.
Leitch, Erik
Mallie, Olivier E.
Melhuish, Simon J.
Memari, Yasin
Murphy, J. Anthony
Orlando, Angiola
Schwarz, Robert
O'Sullivan, Creidhe
Piccirillo, Lucio
Pryke, Clement
Rajguru, Nutan
Rusholme, Ben
Taylor, Andrew N.
Thompson, Keith L.
Tucker, Carole
Turner, Abigail H.
Wu, Ed Y. S.
Zemcov, Michael
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Hinderks, James R., Peter Ade, James Bock, Melanie Bowden, Michael L. Brown, Gary Cahill, John E. Carlstrom, and et al. 2009. QUaD: A high-resolution cosmic microwave background polarimeter. The Astrophysical Journal 692, no. 2: 1221-1246.Abstract
We describe the QUaD experiment, a millimeter-wavelength polarimeter designed to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from a site at the South Pole. The experiment comprises a 2.64 m Cassegrain telescope equipped with a cryogenically cooled receiver containing an array of 62 polarization-sensitive bolometers. The focal plane contains pixels at two different frequency bands, 100 GHz and 150 GHz, with angular resolutions of 5' and 3'.5, respectively. The high angular resolution allows observation of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies over a wide range of scales. The instrument commenced operation in early 2005 and collected science data during three successive Austral winter seasons of observationTerms of Use
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