Planck pre-launch status: Calibration of the Low Frequency Instrument flight model radiometers

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) on-board the ESA Planck satellite carries eleven radiometer subsystems, called radiometer chain assemblies (RCAs), each composed of a pair of pseudo-correlation receivers. We describe the on-ground calibration campaign performed to qualify the flight model RCAs and...

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Autores: Villa, Fabrizio, Terenzi, Luca, Sandri, Maura, Meinhold, Peter R., Poutanen, Torsti, Battaglia, Paola, Franceschet, Cristian, Hughes, Nicholas J., Laaninen, Mikko, Lapolla, P. M., Bersanelli, Marco, Butler, Reginald Christopher, Cuttaia, Francesco, D'Arcangelo, Ocleto, Frailis, Marco, Franceschi, Enrico, Galeotta, Samuele, Gregorio, Anna, Leonardi, Rodrigo, Lowe, Stuart, Mandolesi, Nazzareno, Maris, Michele, Mendes, Luiz T. S., Mennella, Anniello, Morgante, Gianluca, Stringhetti, Luca, Tomasi, Maurizio, Valenziano, Luca, Zacchei, Andrea, Zonca, Annalisa, Aja Abelán, Beatriz|||0000-0002-4229-2334, Artal Latorre, Eduardo|||0000-0002-2569-1894, Balasini, M., Bernardino, T., Blackhurst, Edward J., Boschini, Luca, Cappellini, Benedetta, Cavaliere, Francesca, Sánchez Colín, Ángel Enrique, Colombo, Fabrizio, Davis, Richard J., Fuente Rodríguez, Luisa María de la|||0000-0003-1403-1660, Edgeley, J., Gaier, Todd C., Galtress, A., Hoyland, Roger J., Jukkala, Petri, Kettle, Danielle, Kilpia, V-H Hermanni, Lawrence, Charles R., Lawson, David J., Leahy, J. Patrick, Leutenegger, Paolo H., Levin, Steven M., Maino, Davide, Malaspina, Marco, Mediavilla Sánchez, Ángel, Miccolis, Maurizio, Pagan, Luca, Pascual Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo|||0000-0003-2123-0502, Pasian, Fabio, Pecora, Massimiliano, Pospieszalski, Marian W., Roddis, Neil, Salmón, María J., Seiffert, Michael D., Silvestri, R., Simonetto, Alessandro, Sjöman, Pekka, Sozzi, Carlo, Tuovinen, Jussi, Varis, Jussi, Wilkinson, Althea, Winder, Frank
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/923
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/923
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Cosmic microwave background
Space vehicles: instruments
Instrumentation: detectors
Techniques: miscellaneous
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Resumo:The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) on-board the ESA Planck satellite carries eleven radiometer subsystems, called radiometer chain assemblies (RCAs), each composed of a pair of pseudo-correlation receivers. We describe the on-ground calibration campaign performed to qualify the flight model RCAs and to measure their pre-launch performances. Each RCA was calibrated in a dedicated flight-like cryogenic environment with the radiometer front-end cooled to 20 K and the back-end at 300 K, and with an external input load cooled to 4 K. A matched load simulating a blackbody at different temperatures was placed in front of the sky horn to derive basic radiometer properties such as noise temperature, gain, and noise performance, e.g. 1/f noise. The spectral response of each detector was measured as was their susceptibility to thermal variation. All eleven LFI RCAs were calibrated. Instrumental parameters measured in these tests, such as noise temperature, bandwidth, radiometer isolation, and linearity, provide essential inputs to the Planck-LFI data analysis.

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