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The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Telescope Architecture

Authors :
Chuss, David T
Ali, Aamir
Amiri, Mandana
Appel, John W
Araujo, Derek
Bennett, Charles L
Boone, Fletcher
Chan, Manwei
Cho, Hsiao-Mei
Colazo, Felipe
Crowe, Erik
Denis, Kevin L
Dunner, Rolando
Eimer, Joseph
Essinger-Hileman, Thomas
Gothe, Dominik
Halpern, Mark
Harrington, Kathleen
Hilton, Gene
Hinshaw, Gary F
Huang, Caroline
Irwin, Kent
Jones, Glenn
Karakla, John
Kogut, Alan J
Larson, David
Limon, Michele
Lowry, Lindsay
Marriage, Tobias
Mehrle, Nicholas
Stevenson, Thomas
Miller, Nathan J
Moseley, Samuel H
U-Yen, Kongpop
Wollack, Edward
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2014.

Abstract

We describe the instrument architecture of the Johns Hopkins University-led CLASS instrument, a groundbased cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter that will measure the large-scale polarization of the CMB in several frequency bands to search for evidence of inflation.

Subjects

Subjects :
Astrophysics

Details

Language :
English
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Notes :
NNG12PL17C, , 0959349
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.20140007513
Document Type :
Report