COMPASS: An Instrument for Measuring the Polarization of the CMB on Intermediate Angular Scales
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v2
Abstract
COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 meter telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter. The entire instrument was built specifically for CMB polarization studies. Careful attention was given to receiver and optics design, stability of the pointing platform, avoidance of systematic offsets, and development of data analysis techniques. Here we describe the experiment, its strengths and weaknesses, and the various things we have learned that may benefit future efforts to measure the polarization of the CMB.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0305608,
title = {COMPASS: An Instrument for Measuring the Polarization of the CMB on Intermediate Angular Scales},
author = {Philip C. Farese and Giorgio Dall'Oglio and Josh Gundersen and Brian Keating and Slade Klawikowski and Lloyd Knox and Alan Levy and Chris O'Dell and Alan Peel and Lucio Piccirillo and John Ruhl and Peter Timbie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0305608},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To be published in the proceedings of "The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Polarization", New Astronomy Reviews, (eds. S. Hanany and K.A. Olive)