タイトル | The Absolute Spectrum Polarimeter (ASP) |
著者(英) | Kogut, A. J. |
著者所属(英) | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
発行日 | 2010-01-01 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | The Absolute Spectrum Polarimeter (ASP) is an Explorer-class mission to map the absolute intensity and linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background and diffuse astrophysical foregrounds over the full sky from 30 GHz to 5 THz. The principal science goal is the detection and characterization of linear polarization from an inflationary epoch in the early universe, with tensor-to-scalar ratio r much greater than 1O(raised to the power of { -3}) and Compton distortion y < 10 (raised to the power of{-6}). We describe the ASP instrument and mission architecture needed to detect the signature of an inflationary epoch in the early universe using only 4 semiconductor bolometers. |
NASA分類 | Astrophysics |
権利 | No Copyright |
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