BICEP: a large angular scale CMB polarimeter
2003
We describe the design and expected performance of BICEP, a
millimeter wave receiver designed to measure the polarization of
the cosmic microwave background. BICEP uses an array of
polarization sensitive bolometers operating at 100 and 150 GHz to
measure polarized signals over a 20 degree field of view with 1 degree resolution. BICEP is designed with particular
attention to systematic effects which can potentially degrade the
polarimetric fidelity of the observations. BICEP is optimized to
detect the faint signature of a primordial gravitational wave
background which is a generic prediction of inflationary
cosmologies.
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