An Overview of the SPOrt Experiment

Michele Orsini; Ettore Carretti; Stefano Cortiglioni

doi:10.1080/10556790008238577

An Overview of the SPOrt Experiment

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Authors: Michele Orsini , Ettore Carretti , Stefano Cortiglioni

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Abstract

The Sky Polarization Observatory is an experiment selected by ESA for the Early Opportunity Phase onboard the International Space Station. SPOrt is the first payload specifically designed for polarization measurements, it will provide near full sky maps of the sky polarized emission at four microwave frequencies between 22 and 90 GHz. Current design of SPOrt will be presented, together with an overview of the scientific goals of the experiment.

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polarization measurements microwave observations SPOrt Sky Polarization Observatory cosmic microwave background

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0005430,
  title  = {An Overview of the SPOrt Experiment},
  author = {Michele Orsini and Ettore Carretti and Stefano Cortiglioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0005430},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 4 Postscript figures; to be published in Gamov Memorial International Conference Proceedings, Astronomy and Astrophysical Transactions, v.20, 2000; SPOrt Project Home Page: http://sport.tesre.bo.cnr.it/

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