QUaD

A photograph of the QUaD telescope inside its groundshield taken from a crane above the telescope.

QUaD,[1] an acronym for QUEST at DASI, is a ground based cosmic microwave backrground (CMB) polarization experiment located at the South Pole. QUEST (Q and U Extragalactic Sub-mm Telescope) was the original name attributed to the bolometer detector instrument, while DASI is a famous CMB interferometry experiment credited with the first detection of CMB polarization. QUaD uses the existing DASI mechanical infrastructure but replaces the DASI interferometric array with a bolometer detector at the end of a cassegrain optical system.

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References

  1. ↑ QUaD collaboration (2007). "First season QUaD CMB temperature and polarization power spectra".arXiv:0705.2359v1

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Coordinates: 90°00′S 139°16′W / 90.000°S 139.267°W / -90.000; -139.267


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