QUaD: A high-resolution cosmic microwave background polarimeter

Hinderks, J. R., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Bock, J., Bowden, Melanie, Brown, M. L., Cahill, G., Carlstrom, J. E., Castro, P. G., Church, S., Culverhouse, T., Friedman, R., Ganga, K., Gear, Walter Kieran ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6789-6196, Gupta, Sujata, Harris, J., Haynes, V., Keating, B. G., Kovac, J., Kirby, E., Lange, A. E., Leitch, E., Mallie, O. E., Melhuish, Simon John, Memari, Y., Murphy, A., Orlando, Angiola, Schwarz, R., O'Sullivan, C., Piccirillo, Lucio, Pryke, C., Rajguru, Nutan J., Rusholme, B., Taylor, A. N., Thompson, K. L., Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Turner, Abigail Helen, Wu, E. Y. S. and Zemcov, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8253-1451 2009. QUaD: A high-resolution cosmic microwave background polarimeter. The Astrophysical Journal 692 (2) , 1221. 10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1221

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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 35, 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 observation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cosmic microwave background; instrumentation: polarimeters
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
ISSN:	0004637X
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2022 11:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7360

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