Trade-off between angular resolution and straylight contamination in the PLANCK Low Frequency Instrument I. Pattern simulations

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 428, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 299-310

  Sandri, M ^a,b   Villa, F ^a   Nesti, R ^c   Burigana, C ^a   Bersanelli, M ^a,d   Mandolesi, N ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmology: cosmic microwave background; Instrumentation: detectors; Space vehicles: instruments; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB); COSMOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 10044233059     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041435     Document Type: Article

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