Measuring CMB Spectral Distortions from Antarctica with COSMO:Blackbody Calibrator Design and Performance Forecast

COSMO is a ground-based instrument to measure the spectral distortions (SD) of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this paper, we present preliminary results of electromagnetic simulations of its reference blackbody calibrator. HFSS simulations provide a calibrator reflection coefficient of R∼...

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Published in:Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Main Authors: Mele, L., Battistelli, E. S., de Bernardis, P., Bersanelli, M., Columbro, F., Coppi, G., Coppolecchia, A., D’Alessandro, G., De Petris, M., Franceschet, C., Gervasi, M., Lamagna, L., Limonta, A., Manzan, E., Marchitelli, E., Masi, S., Mennella, A., Nati, F., Paiella, A., Pettinari, G., Piacentini, F., Piccirillo, L., Pisano, G., Realini, S., Tucker, C., Zannoni, M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/093a737b-8f77-473b-9300-50496f2b452d
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02874-x
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Summary:COSMO is a ground-based instrument to measure the spectral distortions (SD) of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this paper, we present preliminary results of electromagnetic simulations of its reference blackbody calibrator. HFSS simulations provide a calibrator reflection coefficient of R∼ 10 - 6 , corresponding to an emissivity ϵ= 1 - R= 0.999999. We also provide a forecast for the instrument performance by using an ILC-based simulation. We show that COSMO can extract the isotropic Comptonization parameter (modeled as | y| = 1.77 · 10 - 6 ) as | y| = (1.79 ± 0.19) · 10 - 6 , in the presence of the main Galactic foreground (thermal dust) and of CMB anisotropies, and assuming perfect atmospheric emission removal.