BICEP: a large angular-scale CMB polarimeter

Brian G. Keating; Peter A. R. Ade; James J. Bock; Eric Hivon; William L. Holzapfel; Andrew E. Lange; Hien Nguyen; Ki Won Yoon

doi:10.1117/12.459274

14 February 2003 BICEP: a large angular scale CMB polarimeter

Brian G. Keating, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock, Eric Hivon, William L. Holzapfel, Andrew E. Lange, Hien Nguyen, Ki Won Yoon

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Proceedings Volume 4843, Polarimetry in Astronomy; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459274
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

We describe the design and expected performance of BICEP, a millimeter wave receiver designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. BICEP uses an array of polarization sensitive bolometers operating at 100 and 150 GHz to measure polarized signals over a 20 degree field of view with 1 degree resolution. BICEP is designed with particular attention to systematic effects which can potentially degrade the polarimetric fidelity of the observations. BICEP is optimized to detect the faint signature of a primordial gravitational wave background which is a generic prediction of inflationary cosmologies.

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Brian G. Keating, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock, Eric Hivon, William L. Holzapfel, Andrew E. Lange, Hien Nguyen, and Ki Won Yoon "BICEP: a large angular scale CMB polarimeter", Proc. SPIE 4843, Polarimetry in Astronomy, (14 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459274

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