Published February 14, 2003
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BICEP: a large angular scale CMB polarimeter
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California Institute of Technology
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Cardiff University
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Jet Propulsion Lab
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University of California, Berkeley
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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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© 2003 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). BICEP is supported by the Caltech President's Fund, an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship to B.G.K. and an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship to K.W.Y. We thank Mihail Amarie for performing the optical simulations used in this paper. We are grateful for the generous support of BICEP by the Caltech Discovery Fund.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20190115-153408460
Funding
- Caltech President's Fund
- NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellowship
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Caltech Discovery Fund
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) , Physics Department
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 4843