QUIJOTE I y II

Q-U-I Joint Tenerife
QUIJOTE I y II
Diameter
Ø 250.00 cm
Characteristics
Robotic
Responsible scientist
José Alberto
Rubiño Martín
Owner institution
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
User institution
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
State
Operational
Operation year
2012

The QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) CMB Experiment is a scientific collaboration between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain), the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (Santander, Spain), the Departamento de Ingenieria de COMunicaciones (Santander, Spain), the Jodrell Bank Observatory (Manchester, UK), the Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge,UK), and the IDOM company (Spain). It started operations in November 2012, and it consists in two telescopes and three instruments dedicated to measure the polarization of the microwave sky in the frequency range between 11 GHz and 40GHz, and at angular scales of 1°.

Partial financial support is provided by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under the projects AYA2010-21766-C03-01, 02 and 03; and also by the Consolider-Ingenio project CSD2010-00064 (EPI: Exploring the Physics of Inflation). The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 687312 (RADIOFOREGROUNDS).

On June 27th 2015, his Majesty the King of Spain inaugurated the two QUIJOTE telescopes that make up the QUIJOTE Experiment.

  • Firma acuerdo IAC y CNRS
    El IAC y el CNRS firman un acuerdo para la creación del Laboratorio Franco-Español de Astrofísica de Canarias
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  • Visitors during the Open Days 2019 to the Teide Observatory. Credit: IAC.
    Nearly 2,000 people visited the Teide Observatory during the Open Days 2019
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  • Participantes en la XIII Reunión del Consorcio QUIJOTE.
    Celebrada en Santander la XIII Reunión del Consorcio QUIJOTE
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Related Projects

  • Instrumento QUIJOTE visto desde la parte inferior
    QUIJOTE- Q-U-I JOint TEnerife CMB experiment
    QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife CMB experiment) - is a program with two telescopes and a battery of instruments, installed in the Teide Observatory, dedicated to the characterization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, in the frequency range 10-42 GHz.
    Rafael
    Rebolo López
    In progress
  • MFI2 and TMS cryostats during IAC acceptance test
    Scientific instrumentation of the CMB laboratory at Teide Observatory - INSIDE OOCC
    The QUIJOTE experiment is a reference project for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) research at the IAC. It started operations in 2012. Currently and in the coming years, key investments are being made to improve and expand its technical capabilities, thus consolidating the scientific leadership of the CMB experiments located at Teide Observatory
    José Alberto
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    Closed
  • Full-sky map showing the spatial distribution of the primary anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (generated 380,000 years after the Big Bang) derived from observations of the Planck satellite
    Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background
    The general goal of this project is to determine and characterize the spatial and spectral variations in the temperature and polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background in angular scales from several arcminutes to several degrees. The primordial matter density fluctuations which originated the structure in the matter distribution of the present
    Rafael
    Rebolo López
    In progress

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