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QUIET

(Q/U Imaging Experiment)
(survey to measure the polarization of the CMB)

QUIET (for Q/U Imaging Experiment, Q and U referring to the Stokes parameters) was a CMB polarization survey, using purpose-built instruments and telescopes, located on the Atacama Desert at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory. It operated from 2008 to 2010.


(survey,telescope,CMB,cosmology,ground,polarimeter,past,Chile)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIET
http://quiet.uchicago.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007NCimB.122.1359K/abstract

Referenced by pages:
CMB surveys
primordial gravitational waves

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