Very low-noise differential radiometer at 30 GHz for the PLANCK LFI

Beatriz Aja; Eduardo Artal; Luisa De La Fuente; Juan Pablo Pascual; Angel Mediavilla; Neil Roddis; Danielle Kettle; W. Frank Winder; Lluis Pradell i Cara; Pedro De Paco

doi:10.1109/TMTT.2005.848815

Very low-noise differential radiometer at 30 GHz for the PLANCK LFI

Beatriz Aja, Eduardo Artal, Luisa De La Fuente, Juan Pablo Pascual, Angel Mediavilla, Neil Roddis, Danielle Kettle, W. Frank Winder, Lluis Pradell i Cara, Pedro De Paco

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Abstract

The PLANCK mission of the European Space Agency is devoted to produce sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The low-frequency instrument is a wide-band cryogenic microwave radiometer array operating at 30, 44, and 70 GHz. The design, test techniques, and performance of the complete differential radiometer at 30 GHz are presented. This elegant breadboard 30-GHz radiometer is composed of a front-end module (FEM) assembled at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, U.K., and a back-end module assembled at the Universidad de Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, and Telecomunicació, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. The system noise temperature was excellent, mainly due to the very low noise performance of the FEM amplifiers, which achieved an average noise temperature of 9.4 K. © 2005 IEEE.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2050-2061
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume	53
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2005.848815
Publication status	Published - Jun 2005

Keywords

Cosmic microwave "Background (CMB)
Cryogenic
Low-noise amplifier (LNA)
Microwave radiometer
PLANCK low-frequency instrument (LFI)

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