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The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole
- Source :
- Quick submit: 2014-02-22T21:13:37-05:00, Staniszewski, Z., R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri, S. J. Benton, C. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, et al. 2012. “The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole.” Journal of Low Temperature Physics 167 (5-6) (April 3): 827–833. doi:10.1007/s10909-012-0510-1.
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature, 2012.
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Abstract
- The Keck array is a new multi-camera Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeter. Each camera contains 256 polarization pairs of antenna-coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We recently deployed three of five cameras at the geographic South Pole, and plan to deploy the final two cameras in early 2012. This new telescope is an ideal instrument to search for the primordial B-mode polarization signal imprinted in the CMB by inflationary gravitational waves. We will discuss the design of the detectors and receivers, the status of current observations, and report on progress toward upgrading the instrument with the full compliment of polarized receivers.<br />Astronomy
- Subjects :
- Transition edge sensor (TES) arrays
Cosmology
Cosmic microwave background
Inflation
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00222291 and 15737357
- Database :
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)
- Journal :
- Quick submit: 2014-02-22T21:13:37-05:00, Staniszewski, Z., R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri, S. J. Benton, C. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, et al. 2012. “The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole.” Journal of Low Temperature Physics 167 (5-6) (April 3): 827–833. doi:10.1007/s10909-012-0510-1.
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edshld.1.33717516
- Document Type :
- Journal Article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0510-1