Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG
Abstract
BOOMERANG is a balloon-borne telescope designed for long duration (LDB) flights around Antarctica. The second LDB Flight of BOOMERANG took place in January 2003. The primary goal of this flight was to measure the polarization of the CMB. The receiver uses polarization sensitive bolometers at 145 GHz. Polarizing grids provide polarization sensitivity at 245 and 345 GHz. We describe the BOOMERANG telescope noting changes made for 2003 LDB flight, and discuss some of the issues involved in the measurement of polarization with bolometers. Lastly, we report on the 2003 flight and provide an estimate of the expected results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0305593,
title = {Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG},
author = {T. Montroy and P. A. R. Ade and A. Balbi and J. J. Bock and J. R. Bond and J. Borrill and A. Boscaleri and P. Cabella and C. R. Contaldi and B. P. Crill and P. de Bernardis and G. De Gasperis and A. de Oliveira-Costa and G. De Troia and G. di Stefano and K. Ganga and E. Hivon and V. V. Hristov and A. Iacoangeli and A. H. Jaffe and T. S. Kisner and W. C. Jones and A. E. Lange and S. Masi and P. D. Mauskopf and C. MacTavish and A. Melchiorri and F. Nati and P. Natoli and C. B. Netterfield and E. Pascale and F. Piacentini and D. Pogosyan and G. Polenta and S. Prunet and S. Ricciardi and G. Romeo and J. E. Ruhl and E. Torbet and M. Tegmark and N. Vittorio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0305593},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 8 figures, To be published in the proceedings of "The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Polarization", New Astronomy Reviews, (eds. S. Hanany and K.A. Olive). Fixed typos, and reformatted citations