The Cosmic Foreground Explorer (COFE): A balloon-borne microwave polarimeter to characterize polarized foregrounds
Astrophysics
2009-06-23 v2
Abstract
The COsmic Foreground Explorer (COFE) is a balloon-borne microwave polarime- ter designed to measure the low-frequency and low-l characteristics of dominant diffuse polarized foregrounds. Short duration balloon flights from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will allow the telescope to cover up to 80% of the sky with an expected sensitivity per pixel better than 100 from 10 GHz to 20 GHz. This is an important effort toward characterizing the polarized foregrounds for future CMB experiments, in particular the ones that aim to detect primordial gravity wave signatures in the CMB polarization angular power spectrum.
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@article{arxiv.0704.0810,
title = {The Cosmic Foreground Explorer (COFE): A balloon-borne microwave polarimeter to characterize polarized foregrounds},
author = {Rodrigo Leonardi and Brian Williams and Marco Bersanelli and Ivan Ferreira and Philip M. Lubin and Peter R. Meinhold and Hugh O'Neill and Nathan C. Stebor and Fabrizio Villa and Thyrso Villela and Carlos A. Wuensche},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0810},
year = {2009}
}
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