Left : 3D view of the B-BOP instrument (Focal Plane Unit). Right : the Bolometer Focal Plane.

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Figure 1. Left : 3D view of the B-BOP instrument (Focal Plane Unit)....

Figure 2. Sketch of the hybrid cryo-cooler for B-BOP.

Figure 3. Details of the B-BOP pixels. Top left and right are SEM...

Figure 4. The principle of B-BOP's pixel with, on the right a...

B-BOP, the SPICA Imaging Polarimeter

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Feb 2021

Vincent Reveret
Marc Sauvage
Obaïd Adami
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F. Visticot

We present the B-BOP instrument, a polarimetric camera on board the future ESA-JAXA SPICA far-infrared space observatory. B-BOP will allow the study of the magnetic field in various astrophysical environments thanks to its unprecedented ability to measure the linear polarization of the submillimeter light. The maps produced by B-BOP will contain no...