Presentation
The QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) CMB Experiment is a scientific collaboration between the
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
(Tenerife, Spain), the
Instituto de Física de Cantabria
(Santander, Spain), the
Departamento de Ingenieria de COMunicaciones
(Santander, Spain), the
Jodrell Bank Observatory
(Manchester, UK), the
Cavendish Laboratory
(Cambridge, UK), and the
IDOM
company (Spain). It started operations in November 2012, and it consists in two telescopes and three instruments dedicated to measure the polarization of the microwave sky in the frequency range between 10 GHz and 40GHz, and at angular scales of one degree.
QUIJOTE is located at the
Teide Observatory
(2,400m above sea level) in Tenerife (Canary Islands), a site with excellent observing conditions for microwave observations (median pwv of 3.5 mm), and with a long tradition (of more than 35 years) in
CMB research
.
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