The SPOrt project: Cosmological and astrophysical goals

1 January 1999

conference paper
Published by AIP Publishing

Vol. 476 (1) , 194
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.59345

Abstract

We present the cosmological and astrophysical objectives of the SPOrt mission, which is scheduled for flying on the International Space Station (ISS) in the year 2002 with the purpose of measuring the diffuse sky polarized radiation in the microwave region. We discuss the problem of disentangling the cosmic background polarized signal from the Galactic foregrounds.

Keywords

GALAXY
COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS
ASTRONOMICAL POLARIMETRY
ASTRONOMICAL SPECTRA
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
COSMIC DUST
SIGNAL PROCESSING

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