The QUIJOTE CMB Experiment: studying the polarization of the Galactic and Cosmological microwave emissions

by Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martin (Istituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife)

Tuesday 3 Jul 2012, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula 5 (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio E. Fermi)

I will review the current status of the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint Tenerife) CMB Experiment, a new experiment that will operate at the Teide Observatory with the aim of characterizing the polarization of the CMB and other processes of galactic and extragalactic emission in the frequency range of 10-40 GHz and at large angular scales. The first of the two QUIJOTE telescopes and the first instrument will start operations soon at the Teide Observatory. QUIJOTE will be a valuable complement at low frequencies for the PLANCK mission, and will have the required sensitivity to detect a primordial gravitational-wave component if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger than r=0.05. In the second part of the talk, I will briefly review the most recent results of anomalous microwave emission (AME) obtained from the IAC group, with special emphasis on the polarization of the AME.