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19 April 2024

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Modulation of CMB polarization with a warm rapidly-rotating half-wave plate on the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument
A. Kusaka ; T. Essinger-Hileman ; J. W. Appel ; P. Gallardo ; K. D. Irwin ; N. Jarosik ; M. R. Nolta ; L. A. Page ; L. P. Parker ; S. Raghunathan ; J. L. Sievers ; S. M. Simon ; S. T. Staggs ; K. Visnjic ;
Date:	14 Oct 2013
Abstract:	We evaluate the modulation of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization using a rapidly-rotating, half-wave plate (HWP) on the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS). After demodulating the time-ordered-data (TOD), we find a significant reduction of atmospheric fluctuations. The demodulated TOD is stable on time scales of 500-1000 seconds, corresponding to frequencies of 1-2 mHz. This facilitates recovery of cosmological information at large angular scales, which are typically available only from balloon-borne or satellite experiments. This technique also achieves a sensitive measurement of celestial polarization without differencing the TOD of paired detectors sensitive to two orthogonal linear polarizations. This is the first demonstration of the ability to remove atmospheric contamination at these levels from a ground-based platform using a rapidly-rotating HWP.
Source:	arXiv, 1310.3711
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