Simulating the Performance of Large-Format Submillimetre Focal-Plane Arrays

Details Simulating the Performance of Large-Format Submillimetre Focal-Plane Arrays Simulating the Performance of Large-Format Submillimetre Focal-Plane Arrays

2001-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109330v2

AIP Conf.Proc.616:357-359,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 3 figures, Conference Contribution: 2K1BC Workshop "Experimental Cosmology at millimetre wavelengths", July 9-13 2001

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1475658

A robust measurement of the clustering amplitude of the sub-mm population of starburst galaxies requires large-area surveys (>> 1 deg^2). The largest-format arrays subtend only 10 arcmin^2 on the sky and hence scan-mapping is a necessary observing mode. Providing realistic representations of the extragalactic sky and atmosphere, as the input to a detailed simulator of the telescope and instrument performance, allows important decisions to be made about the design of large-area fully-sampled surveys and observing strategies. In this paper we present preliminary simulations that include detector noise, time-constants and array geometry, telescope pointing errors, scan speeds and scanning angles, sky noise and sky rotation.

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