Clover (telescope)
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- For other uses, see Clover (disambiguation).
Clover is a new experiment which has been designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background down to a sensitivity limited by the foreground contamination due to lensing, allowing the detection of primordial gravitational waves in the Universe.
The Clover Project will consist of three independent telescopes operating at 95, 150 and 225 GHz sited near the CBI site in the Atacama Desert, Chile, each of which will implement large format focal-plane arrays of bolometric detectors.
The Clover Project was approved for funding in 2005 and it is hoped that the full telescope will be operational by 2008. The project is jointly run by Cardiff University, Oxford University, University of Manchester and the Cavendish Astrophysics Group.
