CM5 - Present and future of CMB observations |
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Speaker |
Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto |
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Rubino-Martin, J.A.; on behalf of the QUIJOTE collaboration |
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The QUIJOTE Experiment: Project Status and First Scientific Results. |
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Abstract |
I will review the current status of the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) experiment, a project with the aim of characterising the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background, and other galactic or extragalactic physical processes that emit in microwaves in the frequency range 10-42GHz, and at large angular scales (1 degree resolution). The experiment has been designed to reach the required sensitivity to detect a primordial gravitational wave component in the CMB, provided its tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger than r~0.05. QUIJOTE consists of two telescopes and three instruments which will survey a large sky area from the Teide Observatory to provide I, Q and U maps of high sensitivity. The first QUIJOTE instrument, known as Multi-Frequency Instrument (MFI), has been surveying the northern sky in four individual frequencies between 10 and 20 GHz since November 2012, providing data with an average sensitivity of 60 muK/beam in Q and U in a region of 20,000 square-degrees. The second instrument, or Thirty-GHz Instrument (TGI), and the third one, or Forty-GHz Instrument (FGI), are currently undergoing the commissioning phase. |
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