Simulations and performance of the QUBIC optical beam combiner

Autor: Emory F. Bunn, M.-A. Bigot-Sazy, Y. Giraud-Héraud, A. Zullo, Alessandro Buzzelli, M. Gómez Berisso, M. Giard, F. Voisin, J. Aumont, L. Mele, N. Bleurvacq, L. Dumoulin, L. Grandsire, Nicola Vittorio, Giuseppe D'Alessandro, P. Ringegni, F. Piacentini, Peter T. Timbie, P. Chanial, D. Viganò, M. C. Medina, Alessandro Schillaci, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Laurent Bergé, G. Polenta, Gabriele Coppi, Steve Torchinsky, P. Battaglia, L. Montier, X. Garrido, J.-P. Thermeau, Massimo Gervasi, V. Truongcanh, Rocco D'Agostino, M. Gaspard, R. Puddu, J. Bonaparte, Luca Lamagna, S. Spinelli, C. Chapron, G. de Gasperis, Victor Haynes, A. Etchegoyen, S. Loucatos, Gregory S. Tucker, L. M. Mundo, Marco Bersanelli, A. Lowitz, G. Bordier, E. Guerrard, Mario Zannoni, A. Pelosi, G. Amico, Vladimir V. Luković, D. Buzi, E. Olivieri, R. Luterstein, S. Scully, D. Prêle, H. Pastoriza, A. Mattei, J. Kaplan, F. Columbro, A. Gault, A. Passerini, F. Pajot, D. Harari, Silvia Masi, A. Di Donato, B. Watson, M. Stolpovskiy, Gustavo E. Romero, E. Bréelle, R. Charlassier, J. Bonis, Elia S. Battistelli, D. Gayer, M. De Leo, A. Tartari, Peter A. R. Ade, J. D. Murphy, B. Bélier, S. Banfi, Alessandro Paiella, P. de Bernardis, S. Vanneste, Andrew May, M. De Petris, G. Barbarán, Giampaolo Pisano, Francesco Cavaliere, Cristian Franceschet, D. T. Hoang, Matthieu Tristram, D. Burke, F. Incardona, F. Suarez, J. A. Murphy, C. Kristukat, Marcin Gradziel, F. Couchot, Bruce Rafael Mellado Garcia, A. Mennella, Alessandro Coppolecchia, M. M. Gamboa Lerena, Andrei Korotkov, A. Fasciszewski, D. Bennett, Damien Rambaud, M. González, Bruno Maffei, F. Wicek, Mark McCulloch, S. Marnieros, O. Perdereau, Maria Salatino, D. Auguste, J.-Ch. Hamilton, C. Perbost, C. Scóccola, Carole Tucker, Federico Pezzotta, M. Piat, E. Jules, Lucio Piccirillo, Thibaut Louis, Sophie Henrot-Versille, Simon J. Melhuish, A. Baù, J.-Ph. Bernard
Přispěvatelé: AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies [Orsay] (C2N), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Zmuidzinas, Jonas, Gao, Jian-Rong, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Zmuidzinas, J, Gao, JR, Zullo, A, Wicek, F, Watson, B, Voisin, F, Vittorio, N, Viganò, D, Vanneste, S, Tucker, G, Tucker, C, Truongcanh, V, Tristram, M, Torchinsky, S, Timbie, P, Thermeau, J, Tartari, A, Suarez, F, Stolpovskiy, M, Spinelli, S, Scóccola, C, Schillaci, A, Salatino, M, Romero, G, Ringegni, P, Rambaud, D, Puddu, R, Prêle, D, Polenta, G, Pisano, G, Piccirillo, L, Piat, M, Piacentini, F, Pezzotta, F, Perdereau, O, Perbost, C, Pelosi, A, Pastoriza, H, Passerini, A, Pajot, F, Paiella, A, Olivieri, E, Murphy, J, Mundo, L, Montier, L, Melhuish, S, Medina, M, Mele, L, Mcculloch, M, May, A, Mattei, A, Masi, S, Marnieros, S, Maffei, B, Luterstein, R, Lukovic, V, Lowitz, A, Louis, T, Loucatos, S, Lamagna, L, Kristukat, C, Korotkov, A, Kaplan, J, Jules, E, Incardona, F, Hoang, D, Henrot-Versillé, S, Haynes, V, Harari, D, Grandsire, L, Gradziel, M, González, M, Gómez Berisso, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Giard, M, Gervasi, M, Gault, A, Gaspard, M, Garrido, X, García, B, Gamboa Lerena, M, Franceschet, C, Fasciszewski, A, Etchegoyen, A, Dumoulin, L, Di Donato, A, de Gasperis, G, de Bernardis, P, D’Alessandro, G, D'Agostino, R, Couchot, F, Coppolecchia, A, Coppi, G, Columbro, F, Charlassier, R, Chapron, C, Chanial, P, Cavaliere, F, Buzzelli, A, Buzi, D, Bunn, E, Bréelle, E, Bordier, G, Bonis, J, Bonaparte, J, Bleurvacq, N, Bigot-Sazy, M, Bersanelli, M, Bernard, J, Bergé, L, Bennett, D, Bélier, B, Baù, A, Battistelli, E, Battaglia, P, Barbarán, G, Banfi, S, Aumont, J, Auguste, D, Amico, G, Ade, P, Hamilton, J, Zannoni, M, Mennella, A, De Leo, M, De Petris, M, Scully, S, Guerrard, E, Gayer, D, Burke, D, O'Sullivan, C
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
cosmological model
higher-order
QUBIC
Cosmic microwave background
CMB
Interference (wave propagation)
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Cosmology
B-mode: primordial
law.invention
law
B-modes
Anisotropy
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Physics
Applied Mathematics
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
bolometric interferometry
Condensed Matter Physics
Physical optics
physical optics
Interferometry
Horn antenna
detector: performance
polarization: anisotropy
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
interferometer
interference
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
model: optical
programming
010309 optics
FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA
Optics
0103 physical sciences
Electronic
Optical and Magnetic Materials
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Millimeter
Submillimeter
Far-Infrared
Detectors
Instrumentation
Cosmic Microwave Background
Polarization

business.industry
Bolometer
gravitational radiation: primordial
optics
detector: sensitivity
business
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Electronic
Optical and Magnetic Materials

cosmic background radiation: anisotropy
Zdroj: Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng.
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018, Jun 2018, Austin, United States. pp.107082I, ⟨10.1117/12.2313256⟩
DOI: 10.1117/12.2313256⟩
Popis: QUBIC, the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, is a novel ground-based instrument that aims to measure the extremely faint B-mode polarisation anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background at intermediate angular scales (multipoles of = 30 − 200). Primordial B-modes are a key prediction of Inflation as they can only be produced by gravitational waves in the very early universe. To achieve this goal, QUBIC will use bolometric interferometry, a technique that combines the sensitivity of an imager with the immunity to systematic effects of an interferometer. It will directly observe the sky through an array of back-to-back entry horns whose beams will be superimposed using a cooled quasioptical beam combiner. Images of the resulting interference fringes will be formed on two focal planes, each tiled with transition-edge sensors, cooled down to 320 mK. A dichroic filter placed between the optical combiner and the focal planes will select two frequency bands (centred at 150 GHz and 220 GHz), one frequency per focal plane. Polarization modulation will be achieved using a cold stepped half-wave plate (HWP) and polariser in front of the sky-facing horns. The full QUBIC instrument is described elsewhere1,2,3,4; in this paper we will concentrate in particular on simulations of the optical combiner (an off-axis Gregorian imager) and the feedhorn array. We model the optical performance of both the QUBIC full module and a scaled-down technological demonstrator which will be used to validate the full instrument design. Optical modelling is carried out using full vector physical optics with a combination of commercial and in-house software. In the high-frequency channel we must be careful to consider the higher-order modes that can be transmitted by the horn array. The instrument window function is used as a measure of performance and we investigate the effect of, for example, alignment and manufacturing tolerances, truncation by optical components and off-axis aberrations. We also report on laboratory tests carried on the QUBIC technological demonstrator in advance of deployment to the observing site in Argentina.
Databáze: OpenAIRE