PILOT: a balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarized FIR emission of dust grains in the interstellar medium

Misawa, R., Bernard, J-Ph., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, André, Y., de Bernardis, P., Bouzit, M., Charra, M., Crane, B., Dubois, J. P., Engel, C., Griffin, Matthew Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0033-177X, Hargrave, Peter Charles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3109-6629, Leriche, B., Longval, Y., Maes, S., Marty, C., Marty, W., Masi, S., Mot, B., Narbonne, J., Pajot, F., Pisano, Giampaolo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Ponthieu, N., Ristorcelli, I., Rodriguez, L., Roudil, G., Salatino, M., Savini, Giorgio and Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918 2014. PILOT: a balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarized FIR emission of dust grains in the interstellar medium. Presented at: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 22 June 2014. Proc. SPIE 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. , vol.9153 The International Society for Optical Engineering, 91531H. 10.1117/12.2055506

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Abstract

Future cosmology space missions will concentrate on measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Back- ground, which potentially carries invaluable information about the earliest phases of the evolution of our universe. Such ambitious projects will ultimately be limited by the sensitivity of the instrument and by the accuracy at which polarized foreground emission from our own Galaxy can be subtracted out. We present the PILOT balloon project which will aim at characterizing one of these foreground sources, the polarization of the dust continuum emission in the diffuse interstellar medium. The PILOT experiment will also constitute a test-bed for using multiplexed bolometer arrays for polarization measurements. We present the results of ground tests obtained just before the first flight of the instrument. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN:	0277-786X
Funders:	Cardiff Universtiy
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2022 08:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67156

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