{"id":38,"date":"2010-08-23T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T00:47:19","slug":"cofe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/projects\/previous-projects\/cofe","title":{"rendered":"COFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>COFE &#8211; COsmic Foreground Explorer<\/h2>\n<p>A new balloon-borne mission to study the polarization spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) of the universe at low <em>l <\/em>numbers. COFE will have two primary scientific goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Measurement and understanding of the polarization characteristics of important galactic foregrounds at low l (2-100) and frequencies below 50 GHz. These foregrounds include Synchrotron radiation, Bremstrahlung radiation, possible emission from spinning dust, and some potential (small) contribution from point sources.<\/li>\n<li>Exploration of the low- l systematic limits to sub-orbital CMB polarization experiments for possible future large scale balloon borne missions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-Cosmic-Foreground-Explorer-A-balloon-borne-microwave-polarimeter-to-characterize-polarized-foregrounds-SD-20062.pdf\">The Cosmic Foreground Explorer A balloon-borne microwave polarimeter to characterize polarized foregrounds &#8211; SD &#8211; 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_295\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_9143.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-295\" title=\"COFE Sled\" src=\"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_9143-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_9143-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_9143-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_9143-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the two sleds making up the frame for COFE<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_294\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0912.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-294\" title=\"Cofe Horn\" src=\"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0912-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0912-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0912-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0912-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feed horn for COFE &#8211; 10GHz<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COFE &#8211; COsmic Foreground Explorer A new balloon-borne mission to study the polarization spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) of the universe at low l numbers. COFE will have two primary scientific goals: Measurement and understanding of the polarization characteristics of important galactic foregrounds at low l (2-100) and frequencies below 50 GHz. These&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/4227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}