Compass: An upper limit on cosmic microwave background polarization at an angular scale of 20′

Philip C. Farese; Giorgio Dall'Oglio; Joshua O. Gundersen; Brian G. Keating; Slade Klawikowski; Lloyd Knox; Alan Levy; Philip M. Lubin; Chris W. O'Dell; Alan Peel; Lucio Piccirillo; John Ruhl; Peter T. Timbie

doi:10.1086/421837

Compass: An upper limit on cosmic microwave background polarization at an angular scale of 20′

Philip C. Farese, Giorgio Dall'Oglio, Joshua O. Gundersen, Brian G. Keating, Slade Klawikowski, Lloyd Knox, Alan Levy, Philip M. Lubin, Chris W. O'Dell, Alan Peel, Lucio Piccirillo, John Ruhl, Peter T. Timbie

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Abstract

COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 m telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter operating at a wavelength of 1 cm. The entire instrument was built specifically for cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization studies. We report here on observations of 2001 February-April using this system. We set an upper limit on E-mode polarized anisotropies of 1036 μK² (95% confidence limit) in the l range 93-555.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	625-634
Number of pages	10
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	610
Issue number	2 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/421837
State	Published - Aug 1 2004

Keywords

Cosmic microwave background
Cosmology: observations
Instrumentation: polarimeters

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Compass : An upper limit on cosmic microwave background polarization at an angular scale of 20′. / Farese, Philip C.; Dall'Oglio, Giorgio; Gundersen, Joshua O.; Keating, Brian G.; Klawikowski, Slade; Knox, Lloyd; Levy, Alan; Lubin, Philip M.; O'Dell, Chris W.; Peel, Alan; Piccirillo, Lucio; Ruhl, John; Timbie, Peter T.

In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 610, No. 2 I, 01.08.2004, p. 625-634.

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Farese, Philip C. ; Dall'Oglio, Giorgio ; Gundersen, Joshua O. ; Keating, Brian G. ; Klawikowski, Slade ; Knox, Lloyd ; Levy, Alan ; Lubin, Philip M. ; O'Dell, Chris W. ; Peel, Alan ; Piccirillo, Lucio ; Ruhl, John ; Timbie, Peter T. / Compass : An upper limit on cosmic microwave background polarization at an angular scale of 20′. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2004 ; Vol. 610, No. 2 I. pp. 625-634.

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