Bibcode
Génova-Santos, R.; Rubiño-Martín, J. A.; Rebolo, R.; Aguiar, M.; Gómez-Reñasco, F.; Gutiérrez, C.; Hoyland, R. J.; López-Caraballo, C.; Peláez-Santos, A. E.; Pérez-de-Taoro, M. R.; Poidevin, F.; Sánchez de la Rosa, V.; Tramonte, D.; Vega-Moreno, A.; Viera-Curbelo, T.; Vignaga, R.; Martínez-González, E.; Barreiro, R. B.; Casaponsa, B.; Casas, F. J.; Diego, J. M.; Fernández-Cobos, R.; Herranz, D.; López-Caniego, M.; Ortiz, D.; Vielva, P.; Artal, E.; Aja, B.; Cagigas, J.; Cano, J. L.; de la Fuente, L.; Mediavilla, A.; Terán, J. V.; Villa, E.; Piccirillo, L.; Davies, R.; Davis, R. J.; Dickinson, C.; Grainge, K.; Harper, S.; Maffei, B.; McCulloch, M.; Melhuish, S.; Pisano, G.; Watson, R. A.; Lasenby, A.; Ashdown, M.; Hobson, M.; Perrott, Y.; Razavi-Ghods, N.; Saunders, R.; Titterington, D.; Scott, P.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, Proceedings of the XI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 8-12, 2014, in Teruel, Spain, ISBN 978-84-606-8760-3. A. J. Cenarro, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, J. Trujillo Bueno, and L. Valdivielso (eds.), p. 207-212
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2015
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Description
QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a new polarimeter aimed to
characterize the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and
other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium and large angular
scales in the frequency range 10--40 GHz. The multi-frequency (10--20
GHz) instrument, mounted on the first QUIJOTE telescope, saw first light
on November 2012 from the Teide Observatory (2400 m a.s.l). During 2014
the second telescope has been installed at this observatory. A second
instrument at 30 GHz will be ready for commissioning at this telescope
during summer 2015, and a third additional instrument at 40 GHz is now
being developed. These instruments will have nominal sensitivities to
detect the B-mode polarization due to the primordial gravitational-wave
component if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger than r=0.05.