The QUIJOTE-CMB experiment: studying the polarisation of the galactic and cosmological microwave emissions

Rubiño Martín, José Alberto; Rebolo López, Rafael; Aguiar González, Marta; Martínez González, Enrique; Barreiro Vilas, Rita Belén; Casas Reinares, Francisco Javier; Diego Rodríguez, José María; Fernández Cobos, Raúl; Herranz Muñoz, Diego; López-Caniego Alcarria, Marcos; Ortiz García, David; Vielva Martínez, Patricio; Artal Latorre, Eduardo; Aja Abelán, Beatriz; Cagigas Ibañez, Jaime; Cano de Diego, Juan Luis; Fuente Rodríguez, Luisa María de la; Mediavilla Sánchez, Ángel; Terán Collantes, José Vicente; Villa Benito, Enrique

doi:10.1117/12.926581

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/19299

DOI: 10.1117/12.926581

ISSN: 0277-786X

ISSN: 1996-756X

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Fecha

2012-09

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© 2012 Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.

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Proceedings of SPIE, 2012, 8444, 84442Y

Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV, Amsterdam, 2012

Editorial

SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers

Enlace a la publicación

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926581

Palabras clave

Cosmic microwave background

Polarisation

Cosmological parameters

Early Universe

Telescope

Instrumentation

Resumen/Abstract

The QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint Tenerife) CMB Experiment will operate at the Teide Observatory with the aim of characterizing the polarisation of the CMB and other processes of Galactic and extragalactic emission in the frequency range of 10-40GHz and at large and medium angular scales. The first of the two QUIJOTE telescopes and the first multi-frequency (10-30GHz) instrument are already built and have been tested in the laboratory. QUIJOTE-CMB will be a valuable complement at low frequencies for the Planck mission, and will have the required sensitivity to detect a primordial gravitational-wave component if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger than r = 0.05.