Cosmic Microwave Background experiments need to measure polarization properties of the incoming radiation very accurately to achieve their scientific goals. As a result of that, it is necessary to properly characterize these instruments. However, there are not natural sources that can be used for this purpose. For this reason, we developed the PROTOtype CALibrator for Cosmology, PROTOCALC, which is a calibrator source designed for the 90GHz band of these telescopes. This source is purely polarized and the direction of the polarization vector is known with an accuracy better than 0.1◦. This source flew for the first time in May 2022 showing promising result.
Coppi, G., Astori, F., Cattaneo, G., Errand, J., Dünner-Planella, R., Nati, F., et al. (2024). Calibration of CMB Telescopes with PROTOCALC. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. SPIE [10.1117/12.3015040].
Calibration of CMB Telescopes with PROTOCALC
Coppi G.
Primo
;Astori F.;Nati F.;Zannoni M.
2024
Abstract
Cosmic Microwave Background experiments need to measure polarization properties of the incoming radiation very accurately to achieve their scientific goals. As a result of that, it is necessary to properly characterize these instruments. However, there are not natural sources that can be used for this purpose. For this reason, we developed the PROTOtype CALibrator for Cosmology, PROTOCALC, which is a calibrator source designed for the 90GHz band of these telescopes. This source is purely polarized and the direction of the polarization vector is known with an accuracy better than 0.1◦. This source flew for the first time in May 2022 showing promising result.
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