Astrophysical Polarized Backgrounds: Workshop on Astrophysical Polarized Backgrounds Book

	Preface
	Group Photograph
	Polarization Surveys of the Galaxy	3
	Polarization Imaging of the Galactic Emission at 1420 MHz - The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey	9
	Counter-intuitive Polarization Structures	15
	High Resolution Polarimetry of the Inner Galaxy	20
	Low Frequency Polarization Observations of the Galactic Radio Emission	26
	Polarized Microwave Emission from Dust	32
	Dust Polarization from Starlight Data	44
	Small Scale I, U, Q Galaxy Noise at cm. Waves	51
	A Multifrequency Analysis of the Polarized Diffuse Galactic Radio Emission at Degree Scales	54
	Angular Spectra of Galactic Polarized Synchrotron Emission at Arcmin Scales	60
	Galactic Synchrotron Foreground and the CMB Polarization Measurements	66
	Parsec-scale Structure in the Warm ISM from Polarized Galactic Radio Background Observations	72
	CMB Polarization: Scientific Case and Data Analysis Issues	78
	Polarized Foregrounds Power Spectra vs CMB	84
	Cosmic Magnetic Fields: What We Know, What We Must Discover	90
	Magnetic Fields in Our Galaxy: How Much Do We Know? (II) Halo Fields and the Global Field Structure	96
	Whistlers in Interstellar Gas Dynamics	102
	The SPOrt Experiment	109
	The BaR-SPOrt Experiment	115
	B2K: The Polarization-sensitive BOOMERanG Experiment	122
	ELISA: A Small Balloon Experiment for a Large Scale Survey in the Sub-millimeter	129
	Measuring CMB Polarisation with the Planck HFI	135
	The Low Frequency Instrument of the Planck Mission	144
	Precision and Widefield Polarimetry with the Australia Telescope Compact Array	150
	AMiBA - Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy	156
	QUEST - A 2.6-m mm-Wave Telescope for CMB Polarization Studies	159
	The Milano Polarization Experiment Devoted to the Study of the Cosmic Microwave Background	164
	The Polarimetric Observation Facility at the Medicina 32 m Parabolic Antenna	169
	Millimeter Wave Passive Components for Polarization Measurements	177
	Calibrating CMB Polarization Telescopes	183
	The Moon as a Calibrator of Linearly Polarized Radio Emission for the SPOrt Project	187
	A Destriping Technique for SPOrt Polarization Data	193
	Statistical Evaluation and Processing of Uncorrelated and Correlated Outputs of the SPOrt Radiometer	199
	A Code for Dust Polarized Emission Simulation	205
	Some Sources of Systematic Errors on CMB Polarized Measurements with Bolometers	209
	Systematics of Microwave Polarimetry with the Planck LFI	215
	The ASI Science Program	225
	Luigi Broglio Base Facilities and Activities: The ASI Balloon Program	228
	The NASA Balloon Program: An Overview	235
	The Esrange Facility in Northern Sweden - Your Partner for Successful Aerospace Operations	239
	Scientific Balloons from Svalbard	243
	The Rapid Prototyping Approach in the Design and Testing of Radiometric Systems	251
	Calibration Techniques and Devices for Correlation Radiometers Used in Polarization Measurements	257
	Synchrotron Angular Spectra at Various Galactic Latitudes and Frequencies	261
	Submillimetre Polarization of M82 and the Galactic Centre: Implications for CMB Polarimetry	267
	Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from Non-Uniform Reionization	271
	Thermal Design and Preliminary Performance Evaluation of the Cooling System for BaR-SPOrt	275
	SDAMS: SPOrt Data Archiving and Management System	279
	A Millimeter Polarimeter for the 45m Telescope at Nobeyama	283
	Observations of Linear Polarization of Background Galactic Radio Emission in Selected Direction at 8.3 GHz	287
	Radio Polarimetry: A Historical Development at Effelsberg	291
	Workshop Summary and the Future	295
	List of Participants	305
	Author Index	311