Acronym: GEM |
Main Objective: 1st Phase of the Galactic Emission Mapping Project at Portugal -Develop a polarimeter/correlator to detect and map the polarized microwave emission from the Milky Way ( -Use of novel design for a base-band complex I/Q digital correlator based on progammable logic devices (Altera FPGA chip). -Installation of the polarimeter in C-band cassegrain antenna (9-m) for a 1yr observation. - merge the North Hemsiphere maps with South Hemisphere map form Brazil and produce the biggest high sensitivity quasi all-sky map at C-band. -Feed these maps into Principle Component Separation algorythms in Data processing Pipeline of the Planck surveyor satellite (ESA, 2008) for microwave decontamination. |
Reference: POCI/CTE-AST/57209/2004 |
Funding: FCT/POCI |
Start Date: 01-01-2005 |
End Date: 31-12-2007 |
Team: Domingos da Silva Barbosa, Dinis Gomes de Magalhaes dos Santos, Rui Miguel Afonso Gomes da Fonseca, Luís Cupido, José Miguel da Silva Bergano |
Groups: Integrated Circuits – Av |
Partners: CENTRA - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - University of California @ Berkeley, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - Brazil, Dep. Física - Universitá di Milano - Itália |
Local Coordinator: Domingos da Silva Barbosa |
Links:
http://www.av.it.pt/gem Internal Page |
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