We present the cosmological and astrophysical objectives of the SPOrt mission, which is scheduled for flying on the International Space Station (ISS) in the year 2002 with the purpose of measuring the diffuse sky polarized radiation in the microwave region. We discuss the problem of disentangling the cosmic background polarized signal from the Galactic foregrounds.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9901363,
title = {The SPOrt Project: Cosmological and Astrophysical Goals},
author = {R. Fabbri and S. Cortiglioni and S. Cecchini and M. Orsini and E. Carretti and G. Boella and G. Sironi and J. Monari and A. Orfei and R. Tascone and U. Pisani and K. W. Ng and L. Nicastro and L. Popa and I. A. Strukov and M. V. Sazhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9901363},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages; 5 PS figures; requires aipproc2.cls, aipproc2.sty, epsfc.tex; to appear in Proc. of ``3K Cosmology'', Rome 5-10 Oct. 1998