A Far Infrared Polarimeter
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We describe an experiment to measure calibration sources, the polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) and the polarization induced on the CMBR from S-Z effects, using a polarimeter, MITOPol, that will be employed at the MITO telescope. Two modulation methods are presented and compared: an amplitude modulation with a Fresnel double rhomb and a phase modulation with a modified Martin-Puplett interferometer. A first light is presented from the campaign (summer 2003) that has permitted to estimate the instrument spurious polarization using the second modulation method.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405399,
title = {A Far Infrared Polarimeter},
author = {A. Catalano and L. Conversi and S. De Gregori and M. De Petris and L. Lamagna and R. Maoli and G. Savini and E. S. Battistelli and A. Orlando and .},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405399},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, submitted to New Astronomy