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SPOrt: an experiment aimed at measuring the large-scale cosmic microwave background polarization (Proceedings Paper)

Author(s): Ettore Carretti; Stefano Cortiglioni; Gianni Bernardi; Stefano Cecchini; Claudio Macculi; Carla Sbarra; Jader Monari; Alessandro Orfei; Marco Poloni; Sergio Poppi; Giuliano Boella; Silvio Bonometto; Massimo Gervasi; Giorgio Sironi; Mario Zannoni; Marco Tucci; Massino Baralis; Oscar A. Peverini; Riccardo Tascone; Giuseppe Virone; Roberto Fabbri; Luciano Nicastro; Kin-Wang Ng; V. A. Razin; Evgenij N. Vinyajkin; Mikhail V. Sazhin; Igor A. Strukov
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Proceedings Vol. 4843

Polarimetry in Astronomy, Silvano Fineschi, Editors, pp.305-313

Date: 14 February 2003

Paper Abstract

SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a space experiment to be flown on the International Space Station during Early Utilization Phase aimed at measuring the microwave polarized emission with FWHM = 7 deg, in the frequency range 22-90 GHz. The Galactic polarized emission can be observed at the lower frequencies and the polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 90 GHz, where contaminants are expected to be less important. The extremely low level of the CMB Polarization signal calls for intrinsic
DOI: 10.1117/12.458896
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