Planck pre-launch status: Low Frequency Instrument optics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 520, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sandri, M ^a   Villa, F ^a   Bersanelli, M ^b   Burigana, C ^a   Butler, R C ^a   D'Arcangelo, O ^c   Figini, L ^c   Gregorio, A ^d,e   Lawrence, C R ^f   Maino, D ^b   Mandolesi, N ^a   Maris, M ^d   Nesti, R ^g   Perrotta, F ^h   Platania, P ^c   Simonetto, A ^c   Sozzi, C ^c   Tauber, J ⁱ   Valenziano, L ^a  

^a OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c IFP CNR   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^h SISSA   (Italy)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cosmic microwave background; instrumentation: detectors; space vehicles: instruments; submillimeter: general; telescopes

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL OPTICS; VEHICLES;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; COMPLEX INTERFACE; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; CRYOGENIC RADIOMETERS; FEED HORNS; FLIGHT DESIGN; FOCAL SURFACES; GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; GHZ FREQUENCIES; INSTRUMENTATION: DETECTORS; LOW FREQUENCY INSTRUMENT; MAIN BEAMS; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTOMECHANICAL; PLANCK SATELLITES; POLARIZATION PURITY; SIDE LOBES; SPACE VEHICLES: INSTRUMENTS; SUBMILLIMETER: GENERALS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 77956754385     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912891     Document Type: Article

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