利用BICEP进行宇宙微波背景极化测量：仪器表征、校准与性能
天体物理学
2009-11-13 v1
摘要
BICEP是一个地面毫米波辐射热测量阵列，旨在探测宇宙微波背景（CMB）极化中在度级角尺度上的原初引力波信号。目前，BICEP正在南极进行第三年的运行，在天空中最洁净的2%区域内，以100和150 GHz频率以前所未有的灵敏度测量CMB极化，并通过在银道面内外选择观测，对弥散极化前景进行独立约束。本文在严格控制系统误差的背景下讨论了仪器校准，并回顾了实验前两年的性能表现。
引用
@article{arxiv.0808.1763,
title = {CMB polarimetry with BICEP: instrument characterization, calibration, and performance},
author = {Yuki D. Takahashi and Denis Barkats and John O. Battle and Evan M. Bierman and James J. Bock and H. Cynthia Chiang and C. Darren Dowell and Eric F. Hivon and William L. Holzapfel and Viktor V. Hristov and William C. Jones and J. P. Kaufman and Brian G. Keating and John M. Kovac and Chao-Lin Kuo and Andrew E. Lange and Erik M. Leitch and Peter V. Mason and Tomotake Matsumura and Hien T. Nguyen and Nicolas Ponthieu and Graca M. Rocha and Ki Won Yoon and P. Ade and L. Duband},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1763},
year = {2009}
}
备注
12 pages, 15 figures, updated version of a paper accepted for Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, Proceedings of SPIE, 7020, 2008