MAXIPOL: a balloon-borne experiment for
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B.R Johnson; M.E Abroe; P Ade; J Bock; J Borrill; J.S Collins; P Ferreira; S Han
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We discuss MAXIPOL, a bolometric balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the E-mode polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) on angular scales of 10 0 to 2°. MAXIPOL is the first CMB experiment to collect data with a polarimeter that utilizes a rotating half-wa