@article{10902/15463,
year = {2018},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/15463},
abstract = {This paper describes the analysis, design and characterization of a polarimetric receiver developed for covering the 35 to 47 GHz frequency band in the new instrument aimed at completing the ground-based Q-U-I Joint Tenerife Experiment. This experiment is designed to measure polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The described high frequency instrument is a HEMT-based array composed of 29 pixels. A thorough analysis of the behaviour of the proposed receiver, based on electronic phase switching, is presented for a noise-like linearly polarized input signal, obtaining simultaneously I, Q and U Stokes parameters of the input signal. Wideband subsystems are designed, assembled and characterized for the polarimeter. Their performances are described showing appropriate results within the 35-to-47 GHz frequency band. Functionality tests are performed at room and cryogenic temperatures with adequate results for both temperature conditions, which validate the receiver concept and performance.},
organization = {The authors would like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness for the financial support provided through the CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 program under the grant CSD2010-00064 and under the grant ESP2015-70646-C2-2-R.},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
publisher = {Experimental Astronomy, 2018, 45(1), 127-146},
title = {Polarimetric receiver in the forty gigahertz band: new instrument for the Q-U-I joint Tenerife experiment},
author = {Villa Benito, Enrique and Cano de Diego, Juan Luis and Aja Abelán, Beatriz and Terán Collantes, José Vicente and Fuente Rodríguez, Luisa María de la and Mediavilla Sánchez, Ángel and Artal Latorre, Eduardo},
}