Modulation of CMB polarization with a warm rapidly-rotating half-wave
  plate on the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument
  We evaluate the modulation of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization
using a rapidly-rotating, half-wave plate (HWP) on the Atacama B-Mode Search
(ABS). After demodulating the time-ordered-data (TOD), we find a significant
reduction of atmospheric fluctuations. The demodulated TOD is stable on time
scales of 500-1000 seconds, corresponding to frequencies of 1-2 mHz. This
facilitates recovery of cosmological information at large angular scales, which
are typically available only from balloon-borne or satellite experiments. This
technique also achieves a sensitive measurement of celestial polarization
without differencing the TOD of paired detectors sensitive to two orthogonal
linear polarizations. This is the first demonstration of the ability to remove
atmospheric contamination at these levels from a ground-based platform using a
rapidly-rotating HWP.
