The quijote CMB experiment: Progress report

Ricardo Génova-Santos, R. Rebolo, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, M. Aguiar, F. Gómez-Reñasco, J. M. Herreros, S. Hildebrandt, R. Hoyland, C. Ĺopez-Caraballo, R. Rodríguez, M. Tucci, E. Martínez-González, R. B. Barreiro, F. J. Casas, R. Ferńandez-Cobos, D. Herranz, M. López-Caniego, P. Vielva, E. Artal, B. AjaJ. L. Cano, L. De La Fuente, A. Mediavilla, J. P. Pascual, E. Villa, L. Piccirillo, R. Battye, R. Davies, R. Davis, C. Dickinson, B. Maffei, G. Pisano, R. A. Watson, M. Brown, A. Challinor, K. Grainge, M. Hobson, A. Lasenby, R. Saunders, P. Scott, J. Ariño, B. Etxeita, A. Gómez, C. Gómez, G. Murga, J. Pan, R. Sanquirce, A. Vizcargüenaga

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    Abstract

    We briefly discuss the scientific objectives of the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) CMB experiment, and present the current status and future scheduling of this project. QUIJOTE is a new project to study the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and of the Galactic and extragalactic emission in the frequency range 10-30 GHz and with an angular resolution of 1?. It will start operations in summer 2010 from the Teide Observatory. The scientific goal of this experiment is twofold: i) to characterize at low frequencies the polarization of the synchrotron and anomalous emissions, making then possible the correction of these CMB contaminants in the data of similar experiments operating at higher frequencies; and ii) to detect (or to constrain) the imprint of the primordial gravitational-wave background in the polarization pattern of the CMB if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger (lower) than r = 0:05. Copyright © 2012 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity|Marcel Grossmann Meet. Recent Dev. Theor. Exp. Gen. Relat., Astrophys. Relativ. Field Theor. - Proc. MG Meet. Gen. Relat.
    Place of PublicationSingapore
    PublisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd
    Pages2156-2165
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9814374512, 9789814374514
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009 - Paris
    Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → …

    Conference

    Conference12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
    CityParis
    Period1/07/12 → …

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