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QUBIC

(Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology)
(survey measuring the polarization of the CMB)

QUBIC (for Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, Q and U referring to the Stokes parameters) is a CMB polarization survey using a purpose-built instrument and telescope, located on Alto Chorrillos in Argentina. QUBIC began operation in October 2022.


(survey,telescope,CMB,cosmology,ground,polarimeter,Argentina)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubic_experiment
http://qubic.in2p3.fr/wordpress/
https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0391
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011APh....34..705Q/abstract
https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190108-155925412
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
1.4mm220GHz910μeVbeginQUBIC
2.0mm150GHz620μeVendQUBIC

Referenced by pages:
CMB surveys
primordial gravitational waves

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