Observing the polarized sky with Advanced ACTPol

by Maria Salatino (Princeton University, NJ, US)

Friday 30 Sept 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)

Imagine of building a bolometric camera, sensitive to polarization, housing 2000 Transition Edge Sensors, sensitive to two frequency bands centered at 150 and 220 GHz, cooled down to 0.1K. How it would look like? What do you think would be the challenging aspects?
Now. Imagine this camera at the focus of a 6 meter telescope in the Atacama desert, in Northern Chile. What do you think would be the science targets of this camera?
I will walk with the audience through these, and many more, questions, presenting Advanced ACTPol, the new bolometric camera of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.