The thirty gigahertz instrument receiver for the Q-U-I Joint Tenerife experiment: concept and experimental results

Villa Benito, Enrique; Cano de Diego, Juan Luis; Cagigas Ibañez, Jaime; Ortiz García, David; Casas Reinares, Francisco Javier; Pérez Quintanilla, Ana Rosa; Aja Abelán, Beatriz; Terán Collantes, José Vicente; Fuente Rodríguez, Luisa María de la; Artal Latorre, Eduardo; Hoyland, Roger J.; Mediavilla Sánchez, Ángel

doi:10.1063/1.4907015

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/6211

DOI: 10.1063/1.4907015

ISSN: 0034-6748

ISSN: 1089-7623

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2015-02-04

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© 2015 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015, 86, 024702 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4907015.

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Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015, 86(2), 024702

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American Institute of Physics

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4907015

Resumen/Abstract

This paper presents the analysis, design, and characterization of the thirty gigahertz instrument receiver developed for the Q-U-I Joint Tenerife experiment. The receiver is aimed to obtain polarization data of the cosmic microwave background radiation from the sky, obtaining the Q,U, and I Stokes parameters of the incoming signal simultaneously. A comprehensive analysis of the theory behind the proposed receiver is presented for a linearly polarized input signal, and the functionality tests have demonstrated adequate results in terms of Stokes parameters, which validate the concept of the receiver based on electronic phase switching.