| 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.
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| Reference |
POCI/CTE-AST/57209/2004 |
| Name |
Galactic Emission Mapping |
| URL |
Click here |
| Funding |
FCT/POCI
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| Start date |
01-01-2005 |
| Ending date |
31-12-2007 |
| Team |
Domingos da Silva Barbosa ; Dinis Gomes de Magalhães dos Santos ; Rui Miguel Afonso Gomes da Fonseca ; Luís Cupido; José Miguel da Silva Bergano |
| Groups |
Integrated Circuits – Av |
| Partners |
CENTRA - Instituto Superior Técnico; Dep. Física - Universitá di Milano - Itália; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - Brazil; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - University of California @ Berkeley |
| Local coordinator |
Domingos da Silva Barbosa |
| Other contributers |
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