The QUIJOTE CMB Experiment
Abstract
We present the current status of the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) CMB Experiment, a new instrument which will start operations early in 2009 at Teide Observatory with the aim of characterizing the polarization of the CMB and other processes of galactic and extragalactic emission in the frequency range 10-30GHz and at large angular scales. QUIJOTE 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.
- Publication:
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-3-642-11250-8_12
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0810.3141
- Bibcode:
- 2010ASSP...14..127R
- Keywords:
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- Physics;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 5 figures. To appear in "Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V", Proceedings of the VIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) held in Santander, 7-11 July, 2008. Edited by J. Gorgas, L. J. Goicoechea, J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano, J. M. Diego