Universe (Jan 2019)

QUBIC: Exploring the Primordial Universe with the Q&U Bolometric Interferometer

  • Aniello Mennella,
  • Peter Ade,
  • Giorgio Amico,
  • Didier Auguste,
  • Jonathan Aumont,
  • Stefano Banfi,
  • Gustavo Barbaràn,
  • Paola Battaglia,
  • Elia Battistelli,
  • Alessandro Baù,
  • Benoit Bélier,
  • David G. Bennett,
  • Laurent Bergé,
  • Jean Philippe Bernard,
  • Marco Bersanelli,
  • Marie Anne Bigot Sazy,
  • Nathan Bleurvacq,
  • Juan Bonaparte,
  • Julien Bonis,
  • Emory Bunn,
  • David Burke,
  • Daniele Buzi,
  • Alessandro Buzzelli,
  • Francesco Cavaliere,
  • Pierre Chanial,
  • Claude Chapron,
  • Romain Charlassier,
  • Fabio Columbro,
  • Gabriele Coppi,
  • Alessandro Coppolecchia,
  • Rocco D’Agostino,
  • Giuseppe D’Alessandro,
  • Paolo De Bernardis,
  • Giancarlo De Gasperis,
  • Michele De Leo,
  • Marco De Petris,
  • Andres Di Donato,
  • Louis Dumoulin,
  • Alberto Etchegoyen,
  • Adrián Fasciszewski,
  • Cristian Franceschet,
  • Martin Miguel Gamboa Lerena,
  • Beatriz Garcia,
  • Xavier Garrido,
  • Michel Gaspard,
  • Amanda Gault,
  • Donnacha Gayer,
  • Massimo Gervasi,
  • Martin Giard,
  • Yannick Giraud Héraud,
  • Mariano Gómez Berisso,
  • Manuel González,
  • Marcin Gradziel,
  • Laurent Grandsire,
  • Eric Guerard,
  • Jean Christophe Hamilton,
  • Diego Harari,
  • Vic Haynes,
  • Sophie Henrot Versillé,
  • Duc Thuong Hoang,
  • Nicolas Holtzer,
  • Federico Incardona,
  • Eric Jules,
  • Jean Kaplan,
  • Andrei Korotkov,
  • Christian Kristukat,
  • Luca Lamagna,
  • Sotiris Loucatos,
  • Thibaut Louis,
  • Amy Lowitz,
  • Vladimir Lukovic,
  • Raùl Horacio Luterstein,
  • Bruno Maffei,
  • Stefanos Marnieros,
  • Silvia Masi,
  • Angelo Mattei,
  • Andrew May,
  • Mark McCulloch,
  • Maria Clementina Medina,
  • Lorenzo Mele,
  • Simon J. Melhuish,
  • Ludovic Montier,
  • Louise Mousset,
  • Luis Mariano Mundo,
  • John Anthony Murphy,
  • James David Murphy,
  • Creidhe O’Sullivan,
  • Emiliano Olivieri,
  • Alessandro Paiella,
  • Francois Pajot,
  • Andrea Passerini,
  • Hernan Pastoriza,
  • Alessandro Pelosi,
  • Camille Perbost,
  • Maurizio Perciballi,
  • Federico Pezzotta,
  • Francesco Piacentini,
  • Michel Piat,
  • Lucio Piccirillo,
  • Giampaolo Pisano,
  • Gianluca Polenta,
  • Damien Prêle,
  • Roberto Puddu,
  • Damien Rambaud,
  • Pablo Ringegni,
  • Gustavo E. Romero,
  • Maria Salatino,
  • Alessandro Schillaci,
  • Claudia G. Scóccola,
  • Stephen P. Scully,
  • Sebastiano Spinelli,
  • Guillaume Stankowiak,
  • Michail Stolpovskiy,
  • Federico Suarez,
  • Andrea Tartari,
  • Jean Pierre Thermeau,
  • Peter Timbie,
  • Maurizio Tomasi,
  • Steve A. Torchinsky,
  • Matthieu Tristram,
  • Carole E. Tucker,
  • Gregory S. Tucker,
  • Sylvain Vanneste,
  • Daniele Viganò,
  • Nicola Vittorio,
  • Fabrice Voisin,
  • Robert Watson,
  • Francois Wicek,
  • Mario Zannoni,
  • Antonio Zullo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe5020042
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
p. 42

Abstract

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In this paper, we describe QUBIC, an experiment that will observe the polarized microwave sky with a novel approach, which combines the sensitivity of state-of-the-art bolometric detectors with the systematic effects control typical of interferometers. QUBIC’s unique features are the so-called “self-calibration”, a technique that allows us to clean the measured data from instrumental effects, and its spectral imaging power, i.e., the ability to separate the signal into various sub-bands within each frequency band. QUBIC will observe the sky in two main frequency bands: 150 GHz and 220 GHz. A technological demonstrator is currently under testing and will be deployed in Argentina during 2019, while the final instrument is expected to be installed during 2020.

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