Cosmic microwave background polarization receivers: QUIJOTE experiment

Author

Artal, Eduardo ; De la Fuente, Luisa ; Aja, Beatriz ; Cano, Juan L. ; Villa, Enrique ; Hoyland, Roger ; Rubiño-Martin, J.A. ; Génova, Ricardo

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ing. de Comun., Univ. de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

500

Abstract

The QUIJOTE (QUI JOint TEnerife) Experiment will characterize the polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and other galactic and extragalactic emissions in the frequency range from 10 to 30 GHz, and at large angular scales. The polarimeter receivers at 11,13, 17, 19 and 30 GHz are radiometers based on broadband waveguide rotating polar modulators and broadband orthomode transducers. High sensitivity of polarimeters is achieved with very low noise cryogenic amplifiers (Noise temperature <; 15 K in 11-19 GHz channels and <; 20 K in 30 GHz channel). Subsystems test results and integration measurements of front-end and back-end units show wideband operation in all channels.

Keywords

astronomical polarimetry; polarimeters; radioastronomical techniques; radioastronomy; radiofrequency cosmic radiation; radiotelescopes; CMB polarization receivers; Q U I Joint Tenerife experiment; QUIJOTE experiment; broadband orthomode transducers; broadband waveguide rotating polar modulators; cosmic microwave background; extragalactic emissions; frequency 10 GHz to 30 GHz; polarimeter receivers; radiometers; very low noise cryogenic amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2010 European

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7232-1

Type

conf

Filename

5616610