Planck pre-launch status: High Frequency Instrument polarization calibration
Publication date: 10 July 2010
Authors: Rosset, C., et al.
Journal: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Volume: 520
Issue: A13
Page: 12
Year: 2010
Copyright: ESO
A&A doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913054
The High Frequency Instrument of Planck will map the entire sky in the millimeter and sub-millimeter domain from 100 to 857 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity to polarization (DP/Tcmb ~4 x 10-6 for P either Q or U and Tcmb~2.7 K) at 100, 143, 217 and 353 GHz. It will lead to major improvements in our understanding of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and polarized foreground signals. Planck will make high resolution measurements of the E- mode spectrum (up to l~1500) and will also play a prominent role in the search for the faint imprint of primordial gravitational waves on the CMB polarization.
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