On the loss of telemetry data in full-sky surveys from space

Details On the loss of telemetry data in full-sky surveys from space On the loss of telemetry data in full-sky surveys from space

2003-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302563v1

New Astron. 8 (2003) 711-718

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication on New Astronomy

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1384-1076(03)00058-7

In this paper we discuss the issue of loosing telemetry (TM) data due to different reasons (e.g. spacecraft-ground transmissions) while performing a full-sky survey with space-borne instrumentation. This is a particularly important issue considering the current and future space missions (like Planck from ESA and WMAP from NASA) operating from an orbit far from Earth with short periods of visibility from ground stations. We consider, as a working case, the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) on-board the Planck satellite albeit the approach developed here can be easily applied to any kind of experiment that makes use of an observing (scanning) strategy which assumes repeated pointings of the same region of the sky on different time scales. The issue is addressed by means of a Monte Carlo approach. Our analysis clearly shows that, under quite general conditions, it is better to cover the sky more times with a lower fraction of TM retained than less times with a higher guaranteed TM fraction. In the case of Planck, an extension of mission time to allow a third sky coverage with 95% of the total TM guaranteed provides a significant reduction of the probability to loose scientific information with respect to an increase of the total guaranteed TM to 98% with the two nominal sky coverages.

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