Oxford Experimental Radio/mm Cosmology

QUIET - The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT

QUIET is a new telesope being built to make very sensitive measurements of the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The instrument will consist of large arrays of coherent detectors operating at two frequencies (40 and 90 GHz) and will use multiple telescopes (3x2m + 1x7m) at 5,080m in Chile in the Atacama desert. The measurements will cover angular scales from a few arcminutes to a few degrees.

QUIET is a collaboration between Princeton, Chicago, Miami, JPL, Caltech, Columbia, Goddard Space Flight Centre, Havard, Stanford and Oxford.

For lots more information have a look The official QUIET website .