Performance of a continuously rotating half-wave plate on the POLARBEAR telescope

Keyphrases

• Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate 100%
• Primary Mirror 66%
• Intensity to Polarization Leakage 33%
• Stokes Parameters 16%
• Detector System 16%
• Noise Subtraction 16%
• Leakage Reduction 16%
• Prime Focus 16%
• Half-wave Plate 16%
• Precise Temperature Control 16%
• Scanning Strategy 16%
• Primordial B-mode 16%
• Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature 16%
• Illumination Pattern 16%
• Detector Nonlinearity 16%
• Secondary Mirror 16%
• Knee Frequency 16%
• Large-aperture Telescope 16%
• Differential Gain 16%

Physics

• Gregorian Telescopes 50%
• Temperature Control 50%