MAXIPOL: a balloon-borne experiment for measuring the polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation

Johnson, Bradley R.; Abroe, M. E.; Bock, J. J.; Borrill, J.; Collins, J.; Ferreira, Pedro G.; Hanany, Shaul; Jaffe, A. H.; Jones, T. J.; Lee, A. T.; Levinson, L. J.; Matsumura, Tomotake; Rabii, B.; Renbarger, T.; Richards, P. L.; Smoot, George F.; Stompor, R.; Tran, Hung V.; Winant, C. D.

doi:10.1016/j.newar.2003.09.034

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“…Consistent detection by experiments using very different techniques is important. This has been achieved only recently for CMB temperature anisotropy measurements, where the data obtained by DASI, CBI and wmap at frequencies < ∼ 100 GHz are perfectly consistent with the bolometric maps obtained by boomerang, MAXIMA, ACBAR and Archeops at 150 GHz (de Bernardis et al 2003;Abroe et al 2003;Kuo et al 2002;Hamilton et al 2003).…”

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confidence: 54%

“…After a long pioneering phase (Caderni et al 1978;Nanos 1979;Lubin & Smoot 1981;Masi 1984;Partridge et al 1988;Netterfield et al 1995;Wollak et al 1997), the measurement of CMB polarization is today a rapidly growing field; new interest has been sparked especially by the possibility of detecting the BB signature of the inflationary gravity wave background (Keating et al 2001;Subrahmanyan et al 2000;Hedman et al 2002;Piccirillo et al 2002;Delabrouille et al 2002;Masi et al 2002;Villa et al 2002;Kovac et al 2002;Johnson et al 2003;Keating et al 2003;Kogut et al 2003;Farese et al 2004;Leitch et al 2005;Barkats et al 2005;Readhead et al 2004;Cortiglioni et al 2004;Cartwright et al 2005). To date, statistically significant detections of CMB polarization have been reported by the experiments DASI, CAPMAP, CBI and WMAP, all using coherent techniques.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Instrument, method, brightness, and polarization maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

Masi¹,

Ade

Bock

et al. 2006

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Aims. We present the boomerang-03 experiment, and the maps of the Stokes parameters I, Q, U of the microwave sky obtained during a 14 day balloon flight in 2003. Methods. Using a balloon-borne mm-wave telescope with polarization sensitive bolometers, three regions of the southern sky were surveyed: a deep survey (∼90 square degrees) and a shallow survey (∼750 square degrees) at high Galactic latitudes (both centered at RA 5.5h, Dec −45• ) and a survey of ∼300 square degrees across the Galactic plane at RA 9.1h, dec −47• . All three surveys were carried out in three wide frequency bands centered at 145, 245 and 345 GHz, with an angular resolution of ∼10 . Results. The 145 GHz maps of Stokes I are dominated by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy, which is mapped with high signal to noise ratio. The measured anisotropy pattern is consistent with the pattern measured in the same region by boomerang-98 and by WMAP. The 145 GHz maps of Stokes Q and U provide a robust statistical detection of polarization of the CMB when subjected to a power spectrum analysis. The amplitude of the detected polarization is consistent with that of the CMB in the ΛCDM cosmological scenario. At 145 GHz, in the CMB surveys, the intensity and polarization of the astrophysical foregrounds are found to be negligible with respect to the cosmological signal. At 245 and 345 GHz we detect ISD emission correlated to the 3000 GHz IRAS/DIRBE maps, and give upper limits for any other non-CMB component. When compared to monitors of different interstellar components, the intensity maps of the surveyed section of the Galactic plane show that a variety of emission mechanisms is present in that region.

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Instrument, method, brightness, and polarization maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

Masi¹,

Ade

Bock

et al. 2006

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“…Diffuse dust polarization is of more relevance to CMB experiments. Polarimetric observations in the transitional high frequency range (see Table 1) were made by Archeops at 353 GHz (Benoît et al 2004) and B2K and MAXIPOL at lower frequencies (Polenta et al 2005;Johnson et al 2003), precursors to Planck HFI. Archeops has reported detecting the dust polarization ( § refsobs).…”

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On Predicting the Polarization of Low Frequency Emission by Diffuse Interstellar Dust

Martín

2007

EAS Publications Series

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Abstract. Several of the current and next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments have polarimetric capability, promising to add to the finesse of precision cosmology. One of the contaminating Galactic foregrounds is thermal emission by dust. Since optical interstellar polarization is commonly seen, from differential extinction by aligned aspherical dust particles, it is expected that thermal emission from these grains will be polarized. Indeed, in the Galactic plane and in dark (molecular) clouds, dust emission in the infrared and submillimetre has been measured to be polarized. It seems likely that the faint diffuse cirrus emission, of more relevance to CMB experiments, will be polarized too. We discuss how well the amount of polarization of this component can be predicted, making use of what is known about optical (and infrared and ultraviolet) interstellar polarization and extinction. Some constraints on the alignment of the carrier of the dust-correlated anomalous microwave emission can be made as well.

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“…The latter strategy has indeed been chosen by a few experiments (e.g. MAXIPOL that uses a rotating grid, Johnson et al 2003), but the majority (e.g. B2K, P) plan to extract the polarisation maps by comparing channels with different mutual orientation of the plane sensitive to linear polarisation.…”

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ROMA: A map-making algorithm for polarised CMB data sets

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Balbi

Cabella³

et al. 2005

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MAXIPOL: a balloon-borne experiment for measuring the polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

Instrument, method, brightness, and polarization maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

Instrument, method, brightness, and polarization maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

On Predicting the Polarization of Low Frequency Emission by Diffuse Interstellar Dust

ROMA: A map-making algorithm for polarised CMB data sets

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