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The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) was a project that aimed to measure the E and B-mode polarisation by simultaneously measuring the Stokes parameters Q and U, hence its name. Located at 5080 m altitude in the Atacama desert in Chile, it observed six regions of the sky at 43 and 95 GHz between October 2009 until December 2010. Four of these regions are the “CMB patches”, which are located in regions with low Galactic emission. The other two regions corresponds to the “Galactic patches”, which lie on the Galactic plane.
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The spherical angle between the hour circle of the observed object and the great circle that connects the object and the zenith.
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Vidal Navarro, M. (2016). QUIET Galactic Observations. In: Diffuse Radio Foregrounds. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26263-5_4
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