Niemack, Michael D., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, de Bernardis, Francesco, Boulanger, Francois, Bryan, Sean, Devlin, Mark, Dunkley, Joanna, Eales, Stephen Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-426X, Gomez, Haley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3398-0052, Groppi, Chris, Henderson, Shawn, Hillbrand, Seth, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, McMahon, Jeff, Miville-Deschenes, Marc-Antoine, Pascale, Enzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-8154, Pisano, Giampaolo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Novak, Giles, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan and Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918 2016. BFORE: The B-mode Foreground Experiment. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 184 (3) , pp. 746-753. 10.1007/s10909-015-1395-6 |
Abstract
The B-mode Foreground Experiment (BFORE) is a proposed NASA balloon project designed to make optimal use of the sub-orbital platform by concentrating on three dust foreground bands (270, 350, and 600 GHz) that complement ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) programs. BFORE will survey ∼∼1/4 of the sky with 1.7–3.7 arcminute resolution, enabling precise characterization of the Galactic dust that now limits constraints on inflation from CMB B-mode polarization measurements. In addition, BFORE’s combination of frequency coverage, large survey area, and angular resolution enables science far beyond the critical goal of measuring foregrounds. BFORE will constrain the velocities of thousands of galaxy clusters, provide a new window on the cosmic infrared background, and probe magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. We review the BFORE science case, timeline, and instrument design, which is based on a compact off-axis telescope coupled to >10,000>10,000 superconducting detectors.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cosmic microwave background, Dust, Foregrounds, Balloons, Superconducting, detectors, Kinematic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 0022-2291 |
Date of Acceptance: | 25 November 2015 |
Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2022 09:12 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/94228 |
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