Trade-off between angular resolution and straylight contamination in CMB anisotropy experiments. I. Pattern simulations

Details Trade-off between angular resolution and straylight contamination in CMB anisotropy experiments. I. Pattern simulations Trade-off between angular resolution and straylight contamination in CMB anisotropy experiments. I. Pattern simulations

2003-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305152v1

Astron.Astrophys. 428 (2004) 299-310

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 19 figures (quality of the figures was degraded for size-related reasons). Submitted to A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20041435

The study of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies represents one of the most powerful Cosmological tools. After the great success of the two NASA's satellite missions COBE and WMAP, Planck represents the third generation of mm-wave instruments designed for space observations of CMB anisotropies within the new Cosmic Vision 2020 ESA Science Programme. The Planck survey will cover the whole sky with unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and frequency coverage, using two instruments that share the focal region of a 1.5 m off-axis dual reflector telescope: the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI). Within the LFI optical interfaces optimisation activity, two concurrent demands have to be satisfied: the best angular resolution (which impacts the ability to reconstruct the anisotropy power spectrum of the CMB anisotropies at high multipoles) and the lowest level of straylight contamination (that may be one of the most critical sources of systematic effects). We present the results of the optical simulations aimed to establish the trade-off between angular resolution and straylight rejection, carried out for the 100 GHz channel of Planck Low Frequency Instrument. Antenna pattern of different models of dual profiled corrugated conical feed horns have been simulated using advanced simulation techniques, considering the whole spacecraft geometry in order to obtain truthful sidelobe predictions. Optical computation accuracy necessary to provide strong straylight evaluation in reasonable computational time is shown and the inadequacy of a Gaussian feed model in realistic far pattern predictions is demonstrated. This paper is based on LFI activities.

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