📡 QUIET

Chile · Americas · 23.03°S, 67.76°W

QUIET was an astronomy experiment to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. QUIET stands for Q/U Imaging ExperimenT. The Q/U in the name refers to the ability of the telescope to measure the Q and U Stokes parameters simultaneously. QUIET was located at an elevation of 5,080 metres at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Chilean Andes. It began observing in late 2008 and finished observing in December 2010.

Read the full article on Wikipedia →

Quick facts

Country	Chile
Continent / region	Americas
Coordinates (approx.)	23.03°S, 67.76°W · view on map

QUIET is located in Chile, in Americas.

More radio telescopes in Chile

Atacama B-Mode Search · Atacama Cosmology Telescope · Atacama Pathfinder Experiment · Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment · Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor · Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope · NANTEN2 Observatory · POLARBEAR · Simons Observatory.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.