Hinderks, J. and Ade, P.A.R. and Bock, J.J. and Bowden, M. and Cahill, G. and Carlstrom, J.E. and Castro, P.G. and Church, S. and Culverhouse, T. and Friedman, R. and Ganga, K. and Gear, W.K. and Gupta, S. and Harris, J. and Haynes, V. and Keating, B.G. and Kovac, J. and Kirby, E. and Lange, A.E. and Leitch, E. and Mallie, O.E. and Melhuish, S. and Memari, Y. and Murphy, J.Anthony and Orlando, A. and Schwarz, R. and O'Sullivan, Créidhe and Piccirillo, L. and Pryke, C. and Rajguru, N. and Rusholme, B. and Taylor, A.N. and Thompson, K.L. and Tucker, C. and Turner, A.H. and Wu, E.Y.S. and Zemcov, M. (2009) QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter. Astrophysical Journal, 692 (2). pp. 1221-1246. ISSN 0004-637X

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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 observation.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	cosmic microwave background – instrumentation; polarimeters;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Experimental Physics
Item ID:	2096
Depositing User:	Dr. Anthony Murphy
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2010 14:34
Journal or Publication Title:	Astrophysical Journal
Publisher:	American Astronomical Society
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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