Sky Polarization Observatory
- Sky Polarization Observatory
The Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt) will launch 2007 to the International Space Station for a planned 2 year mission. There it will observe 80% of the sky for the Cosmic microwave background radiation in the frequency range from 20-100 GHz. Apart from detecting large scale CMB polarization it will also provide maps of Galactic synchrotron emission at lowest frequencies.
The project is headed by the IASF-CNR in Bologna and completely funded by the Italian Space Agency.
Instrumentation
SPOrt [Citation | first = S. Cortiglioni| last = B. Negri|title = The Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt)| year = 2004| pages = 53|publisher = New Astron. 9 (2004) 297-327|url = [arXiv:astro-ph/0401193v2] ] carries four feed horns sensitive at 22, 32 and 90 GHz which feed a bolometer with a pixel sensitivity of 1.7 μK.
References
ee also
*Cosmic microwave background experiments
*Observational cosmology
External links
* [http://sport.iasfbo.inaf.it/ SPOrt Homepage]
* [http://www.ifc.inaf.it/cgi-bin/pubIASF.cgi?href=sport/sport_index.html SPOrt page at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics]
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