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CLASS Observations of Atmospheric Cloud Polarization at millimeter Wavelengths

  • Authors: Yunyang Li, 云炀 李, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Ricardo Bustos, David T. Chuss, Joseph Cleary, Jullianna Denes Couto, Sumit Dahal, Rahul Datta, Rolando Dünner, Joseph R. Eimer, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Kathleen Harrington, Jeffrey Iuliano, Tobias A. Marriage, Matthew A. Petroff, Rodrigo A. Reeves, Karwan Rostem, Rui Shi, 瑞 时, Deniz A. N. Valle, Duncan J. Watts, Oliver F. Wolff, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, 智磊 徐

Yunyang Li et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal 958 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Example of multifrequency polarized cloud observation starting on 2022 January 25. Top: sky images recorded by camera 3, shown in 3 hr intervals. As noted in Figure 5, the highest elevation of camera 3 is below the lowest elevation of the telescope; therefore, clouds in the camera image do not directly correspond to the az-map detections. Rows 1–8: Stokes Q (top) and U (bottom) az-maps for four CLASS frequency bands. The x-axis represents time, and the y-axis, from the bottom to the top of each panel, is the −180°–180° azimuth angle. The azimuthal coverage of camera 3 roughly corresponds to the lower quarter of the az-maps. The gray area shows missing data due to Sun avoidance or excessive detector flux jumps. Row 9: az-map of the detector frame Stokes u map for the 90 GHz band. Row 10: the cloud candidates identified from the 90 GHz u az-map. Red patches show the identified cloud candidates and the gray patches show the extended background region. All az-maps and camera images have the temporal axes aligned.

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