The SPOrt project: Cosmological and astrophysical goals
/ Authors
R. Fabbri, S. Cortiglioni, S. Cecchini, M. Orsini, E. Carretti, G. Boella, G. Sironi, J. Monari, A. Orfei, R. Tascone
and 6 more authors
U. Pisani, K. Ng, L. Nicastro, L. Popa, I. Strukov, M. Sazhin
/ 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.
Journal: arXiv: Astrophysics
DOI: 10.1063/1.59345