The Polarized Galactic Emission Mapping Project in Portugal
An international collaboration aiming to measure galactic foregrounds
CENTRA - Centro Multidisciplinar em Astrofísica do IST
IT- Instituto de Telecomunicações (Pólo de Aveiro)
LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brasil
IASF - Bologna - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Italy

English

Refereed Papers

"Cosmic Microwave Background science from Dome C", P. de Bernardis, D. Barbosa, Y. Giraud-Héraud, M. Gervasi, E. Kreysa, B. Maffei, S. Masi, P. Mauskopf, F. Pajot and L. Verde, 3^rd ARENA Conference: An Astronomical Observatory at CONCORDIA (Dome C, Antarctica), L. Spinoglio and N. Epchtein (eds) EAS Publications Series, 40(2010) 391-398/DOI: 10.1051/eas/1040054 New

"Foregrounds: Unveiling the Galactic Weather to the CMB", D. Barbosa, P. de Bernardis, M. Gervasi, Y. Giraud-Héraud, E. Kreysa, B. Maffei, S. Masi, P. Mauskopf, F. Pajot and L. Verde , 3rd ARENA Conference: An Astronomical Observatory at CONCORDIA (Dome C, Antarctica), L. Spinoglio and N. Epchtein (eds) EAS Publications Series, *40* (2010) 437-442/ DOI: 10.1051/eas/1040060   New

"A low-cost, reliable Data acquisition Control system for a Radioastronomy experiment", Miguel Bergano et al, submitted to IEEE Control Systems Magazine. New

"Upgrade of a geosynchronous telecommunication antenna for a radioastronomy scanning experiments- The Galactic Emission Mapping project in Portugal" , Rui Fonseca , Domingos Barbosa , Dinis Santos, Luis Cupido , Miguel Bergano , Francisco Fernandes , David Macário , Rui Martins , Francisco Queirós de Melo , Anibal Costa , Ivan Ferreira, Luis Reitano , Camilo Tello , George Smoot, in preparation fro Astronomy and Astrophysics (Instrumentation), 2009 New

"An IF section for C-Band Polarimetry using a full digital correlator" - Miguel Bergano, Francisco Fernandes, Luís Cupido, Domingos Barbosa, Rui Fonseca,, Dinis M. Santos, George Smoot. Submitted for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and practice magazine New

"The 2.3 GHz continuum survey of the GEM project", C. Tello, T. Villela, S. Torres , M. Bersanelli, G. F. Smoot, I. S. Ferreira, A. Cingoz, J. Lamb, D. Barbosa, D. Perez-Becker, S. Ricciardi, J. A. Currivan, P. Platania, D. Maino, Astronomy and Astrophysics (submitted), arXiv:0712.3141
 

"A 5GHz survey of the Galactic Polarized Emission", Rui Fonseca, Domingos Barbosa, Luis Cupido, Dinis Magalhães dos Santos, José Bergano, Francisco Fernandes, Camilo Tello, George Smoot, accepted and presented at URSI 2007, Tenerife, by invitation of ANACOM

"A 5GHz survey of the Galactic Polarized Emission", Rui Fonseca, Domingos Barbosa, Luis Cupido, Dinis Magalhães dos Santos, José Bergano, Francisco Fernandes, Camilo Tello, George Smoot, accepted and presented at URSI 2007, Tenerife, by invitation of ANACOM

"C-Band Polarimetry using a full digital correlator", José Bergano, Luis Cupido, Domingos Barbosa, Dinis Magalhães dos Santos, Francisco Fernandes, Camilo Tello, George Smoot, accepted and presented at URSI 2007, Tenerife, , by invitation of ANACOM

"Design of an IF Section for a Galactic Emission Mapping experiment", Miguel Bergano, Luis Cupido, Domingos Barbosa, Rui Fonseca, Dinis M. Santos, George Smoot, submitted for presentation at Conftel 2007, an IT and IEEE sponsored Conference (www.it.pt/conftele2007), astro-ph/0702629

"Site Evaluation and RFI spectrum measurements in Portugal at the frequency range 0.408-10 GHz for a GEM polarized galactic radio emission experiment", R. Fonseca, D. Barbosa, A. Mourão, L. Cupido, D. M. dos Santos, G. F. Smoot, C. Tello, New Astronomy, 11, 551-556, 2006

Proceedings and Reports

"The Polarized synchrotron with the Polarized Galactic Emission Mapping Experiment", D. Barbosa, José M. Bergano, Rui Fonseca, Dinis M. dos Santos, Luis Cupido, Ana Mourão, George F. Smoot, Camilo Tello, Ivan Soares, Thyrso Villela, refered in CMB and Physics of the early Universe - International Conference, in Proceedings of Science, Sissa, PoS(CMB2006)029, 2006

"Polarization foregrounds: the GEM experiment", D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, L. Cupido, D.M. Santos, A. Mourão, G. Smoot, C. Tello, in 5th Meeting on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics, Faro Portugal, January 2005, World Scientific, 2006.

"Polarized Galactic Emission Mapping: helping to unfold the veil to the Cosmic Microwave Background" , D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, D. Santos, L. Cupido, A. Mourão, G. Rocha, G. Smoot, C. Tello, invited commun., refereed in HEP2005 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Lisbon Portugal, July 2005, in Proceedings of Science, PoS(HEP2005)017, 2006.

"Levantando o véu ao Fundo de Radiação Cósmica: o projecto PGEM, Cartografia da Via Láctea", D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, D. Santos, L. Cupido, A. Mourão, G. Rocha, G. Smoot, C. Tello, in proceedings of Física 2005 - XIV Conferência Nacional de Física, Porto Portugal, 2005.

Other GEM publications:

"An experiment to map the signal form the galaxy at 5 GHz", C. Tello, I. Ferreira, T. Villela, G. Smoot, D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, in  "Polar 2005 - Sky polarisation at far-infrared to radio wavelengths: The Galactic Screen before the Cosmic Microwave Background",Workshop in Preparation to Planck, IAS, Paris, September 2005.

"Lifting the veil to the CMB: Measuring the galactic Synchrotron" , C. Tello, I. Ferreira, T. Villela, G. Smoot, D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, in proceedings of Física 2005 - XIV Conferência Nacional de Física, Porto Portugal, 2005.

GEM - Portugal Team Ischia Poster "Lifting the veil to the CMB Polarization with the Galactic Emission Mapping Experiment @ Portugal", D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, M. Bergano, D. M. Santos, A. Mourão, L. Cupido, G. Rocha, G. Smoot, C.Tello, M.Bersanelli, poster presented at CMB and Physics of the Early Universe International Conference 20-22 April 2006, Ischia, Italy.

Talks

"GEM-P project: Mapping the Polarized Galactic Emission  in "Polar 2005 - Sky polarisation at far-infrared to radio wavelengths: The Galactic Screen before the Cosmic Microwave Background",Workshop in Preparation to Planck, IAS, Paris, September 2005.

GEM Memos and Reports

GEM-P Progress Report - Electronics

GEM-P Progress Report - Optics

GEM-P Progress Report - Mechanics