Phase Shift Sequences for an Adding Interferometer

Details Phase Shift Sequences for an Adding Interferometer Phase Shift Sequences for an Adding Interferometer

2008-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/0808.2403v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14194.x

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry has the potential to provide revolutionary advances in cosmology. Future experiments to detect the very weak B mode signal in CMB polarization maps will require unprecedented sensitivity and control of systematic errors. Bolometric interferometry may provide a way to achieve these goals. In a bolometric interferometer (or other adding interferometer), phase shift sequences are applied to the inputs in order to recover the visibilities. Noise is minimized when the phase shift sequences corresponding to all visibilities are orthogonal. We present a systematic method for finding sequences that produce this orthogonality, approximately minimizing both the length of the time sequence and the number of discrete phase shift values required. When some baselines are geometrically equivalent, we can choose sequences that read out those baselines simultaneously, which has been shown to improve signal to noise ratio.

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