Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-26
Astron.Astrophys. 428 (2004) 781-791
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20041182
The role of systematic errors induced by thermal fluctuations is analyzed for the SPOrt experiment with the aim at estimating their impact on the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP). The transfer functions of the antenna devices from temperature to data fluctuations are computed, by writing them in terms of both instrument and thermal environment parameters. In addition, the corresponding contamination maps are estimated, along with their polarized power spectra, for different behaviours of the instabilities. The result is that thermal effects are at a negligible level even for fluctuations correlated with the Sun illumination provided their frequency $f_{tf}$ is larger than that of the Sun illumination ($f_{day}$) by a factor $f_{tf} / f_{day} > 30$, which defines a requirement for the statistical properties of the temperature behaviour as well. The analysis with actual SPOrt operative parameters shows that the instrument is only weakly sensitive to temperature instabilities, the main contribution coming from the cryogenic stage. The contamination on the E-mode spectrum does not significantly pollute the CMBP signal and no specific data cleaning seems to be needed.
Carretti Ettore
Cortiglioni Stefano
Macculi Claudio
Sbarra Ca.
Zannoni Mario
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