CMB polarimetry with BICEP: instrument characterization, calibration, and performance
- Creators
- Takahashi, Yuki D.
- Barkats, Denis
- Battle, John O.
- Bierman, Evan M.
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Bock, James J.
- Chiang, H. Cynthia
- Dowell, C. Darren
- Hivon, Eric F.
- Holzapfel, William L.
- Hristov, Viktor V.
- Jones, William C.
- Kaufman, J. P.
- Keating, Brian G.
- Kovac, John M.
- Kuo, Chao-Lin
- Lange, Andrew E.
- Leitch, Erik M.
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Mason, Peter V.
- Matsumura, Tomotake
- Nguyen, Hien T.
- Ponthieu, Nicolas
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Rocha, Graça M.
- Yoon, Ki Won
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Ade, P.
- Duband, L.
Abstract
Bicep is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to target the primordial gravity wave signature on the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. Currently in its third year of operation at the South Pole, Bicep is measuring the CMB polarization with unprecedented sensitivity at 100 and 150 GHz in the cleanest available 2% of the sky, as well as deriving independent constraints on the diffuse polarized foregrounds with select observations on and off the Galactic plane. Instrument calibrations are discussed in the context of rigorous control of systematic errors, and the performance during the first two years of the experiment is reviewed.
Additional Information
© 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Bicep has been possible through support from NSF Grant No. OPP-0230438, Caltech President's Discovery Fund, Caltech President's Fund PF-471, JPL Research and Technology Fund, and the late J. Robinson. BGK gratefully acknowledges support from NSF PECASE Award #AST-0548262. We thank the South Pole Station staff for their continuing support and Steffen Richter for being a winter over we can rely on. We thank our colleagues in Acbar, Boomerang, QUaD, Bolocam, and Spt for the advice and helpful discussions, and Kathy Deniston for logistical and administrative support.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 87482
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20180629-140215307
- OPP-0230438
- NSF
- PF-471
- Caltech President's Fund
- JPL Research and Technology Development Fund
- J. Robinson
- AST-0548262
- NSF
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2018-06-29Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-15Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 7020