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VizieR Online Data Catalog: Very Small Array. II. CMB at 34GHz (Taylor+, 2003)

VizieR Online Data Catalog 734 (2005) 11066-11066

Authors:

AC Taylor, P Carreira, K Cleary, RD Davies, RJ Davis, C Dickinson, K Grainge, CM Gutierrez, MP Hobson, ME Jones, R Kneissl, A Lasenby, JP Leahy, K Maisinger, GG Pooley, R Rebolo, JA Rubino-Martin, B Rusholme, RDE Saunders, R Savage, PF Scott, A Slosar, PJ Sosa Molina, D Titterington, E Waldram, RA Watson, A Wilkinson

Clover experiment: The receiver block

EAS PUBLICATIONS 14 (2005) 245-250

Authors:

G Pisano, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Heraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, B Maffei, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin

Abstract:

The ClOVER instrument (described elsewhere in this volume) is being built to measure the B-mode polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Each of the 256 pixels is made up a pseudo-correlation receiver that can be realised using either waveguide or microstrip technology. In this work we present a design study for a possible waveguide-based solution. Each of the individual components has been optimised using electromagnetic finite-element modelling software (HFSS).
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Clover: The CMB polarization observer

EAS PUBLICATIONS 14 (2005) 251-256

Authors:

B Maffei, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Heraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, G Pisano, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin

Abstract:

We present a new, fully-funded ground-based instrument designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The concept is based on three independent subsystems operating at 90, 150 and 220 GHz, each comprising a telescope and a focal plane of horn-coupled background-limited bolometers. This highly-sensitive experiment, planned to be based at Dome C station in Antarctica, is optimised to produce very low systematic effects. It will allow the detection of the CMB polarization over angular multipoles 20 < l < 1000 accurately enough to measure the B-mode signature from gravitational waves to a lensing-confusion-limited tensor-to-scalar ratio r similar to 0.005.
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Radio Source Counts at 15 GHz: Implications for CMB Experiments

New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters 201 (2005) 48-48

Precise measurement of CMB polarisation from Dome-C: the BRAIN and CLOVER experiments

ArXiv astro-ph/0412590 (2004)

Authors:

M Piat, C Rosset, the BRAIN, CLOVER Collaboration
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