The QUIJOTE experiment: project overview and first results
Abstract
QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a new polarimeter aimed to characterize the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium and large angular scales in the frequency range 10-40 GHz. The multi-frequency (10-20~GHz) instrument, mounted on the first QUIJOTE telescope, saw first light on November 2012 from the Teide Observatory (2400~m a.s.l). During 2014 the second telescope has been installed at this observatory. A second instrument at 30~GHz will be ready for commissioning at this telescope during summer 2015, and a third additional instrument at 40~GHz is now being developed. These instruments will have nominal sensitivities to detect the B-mode polarization due to the primordial gravitational-wave component if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger than r=0.05.
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@article{arxiv.1504.03514,
title = {The QUIJOTE experiment: project overview and first results},
author = {R. Génova-Santos and J. A. Rubiño-Martín and R. Rebolo and M. Aguiar and F. Gómez-Reñasco and C. Gutiérrez and R. J. Hoyland and C. López-Caraballo and A. E. Peláez-Santos and M. R. Pérez de Taoro and F. Poidevin and V. Sánchez de la Rosa and D. Tramonte and A. Vega-Moreno and T. Viera-Curbelo and R. Vignaga and E. Martínez-González and R. B. Barreiro and B. Casaponsa and F. J. Casas and J. M. Diego and R. Fernández-Cobos and D. Herranz and M. López-Caniego and D. Ortiz and P. Vielva and E. Artal and B. Aja and J. Cagigas and J. L. Cano and L. de la Fuente and A. Mediavilla and J. V. Terán and E. Villa and L. Piccirillo and Davies and R. J. Davis and C. Dickinson and K. Grainge and S. Harper and B. Maffei and M. McCulloch and S. Melhuish and G. Pisano and R. A. Watson and A. Lasenby and M. Ashdown and M. Hobson and Y. Perrott and N. Razavi-Ghods and R. Saunders and D. Titterington and P. Scott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03514},
year = {2015}
}
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To appear in "Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII", Proceedings of the XI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Teruel, Spain (2014)