Data analysis of the Planck/LFI ground-test campaign

Maurizio Tomasi; Paola Battaglia; Marco Bersanelli; Francesco Cuttaia; Cristian Franceschet; Marco Lapolla; Rodrigo Leonardi; Paolo Leutenegger; Davide Maino; Peter Meinhold; Aniello Mennella; Maurizio Miccolis; Torsti Poutanen; Maria Salmon; Maura Sandri; Luca Stringhetti; Luca Terenzi

doi:10.1117/12.671522

6 July 2006 Data analysis of the Planck/LFI ground-test campaign

Maurizio Tomasi, Paola Battaglia, Marco Bersanelli, Francesco Cuttaia, Cristian Franceschet, Marco Lapolla, Rodrigo Leonardi, Paolo Leutenegger, Davide Maino, Peter Meinhold, Aniello Mennella, Maurizio Miccolis, Torsti Poutanen, Maria Salmon, Maura Sandri, Luca Stringhetti, Luca Terenzi

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Proceedings Volume 6275, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III; 627512 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671522
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

The ESA Planck mission is the third generation (after COBE and WMAP) space experiment dedicated to the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. Planck will map the whole CMB sky using two instruments in the focal plane of a 1.5 m off-axis aplanatic telescope. The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) is an array of 52 bolometers in the frequency range 100-857 GHz, while the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) is an array of 11 pseudo-correlation radiometric receivers which continuously compare the sky signal with the reference signal of a blackbody at ~ 4.5 K. The LFI has been tested and calibrated at different levels of integration, i.e. on the single units (feed-horns, OMTs, amplifiers, waveguides, etc.), on each integrated Radiometric Chain Assembly (RCA) and finally on the complete instrument, the Radiometric Array Assembly (RAA). In this paper we focus on some of the data analysis algorithms and methods that have been implemented to estimate the instrument performance and calibration parameters. The paper concludes with the discussion of a custom-designed software package (LIFE) that allows to access the complex data structure produced by the instrument and to estimate the instrument performance and calibration parameters via a fully graphical interface.

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Maurizio Tomasi, Paola Battaglia, Marco Bersanelli, Francesco Cuttaia, Cristian Franceschet, Marco Lapolla, Rodrigo Leonardi, Paolo Leutenegger, Davide Maino, Peter Meinhold, Aniello Mennella, Maurizio Miccolis, Torsti Poutanen, Maria Salmon, Maura Sandri, Luca Stringhetti, and Luca Terenzi "Data analysis of the Planck/LFI ground-test campaign", Proc. SPIE 6275, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 627512 (6 July 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671522

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