Bands at the 30m MRT, sizes of pixels and arrays for various FOVs, Power load, NEP, NET, and NEFD from the background
S.Leclercq - Nov 2009
The numbered variables are the free parameters for the optical and photometric calculations
The grey font is used for comments or optional calculations given for information but not used in the optical and photometric calculations
Diffraction size on the 30m, number of beam and pixels per FOV
Speed of light [m/s] c 3E+08
Boltzman constant [J/K] k 1.38E-23
Planck constant [J*s] h 6.63E-34
M1 Diameter [m] 30
1) Wavelength [mm] l 1.2
Frequency [GHz] n 250
Diffraction Pattern FWHM [mrad] 41
Diffraction Pattern FWHM (HPBW) ["] 8
Forward efficiency x (empiric fit) 92%
Beam efficiency b (Ruze) 56%
2) Fraction of unvigneted pupil diameter 100% <= No cold pupil, but the pixel creates its own vigneting through the horn taper function (see W)
Telescope effective area [m^2] A 707  => area defining the diffraction at horn input: not useful, the relevant effective area is defined by the horn taper illumination, see below
3) Pixel angular size u [Fl] 2 <= based on the measured HPBW would be 1.3, but incompatible with Griffin !!! must find the problem !!!
Pixel solid angle in the sky [sr] W 1.8E-09 <= defined with the horn spill-over (hs, see below) and A (not significant quantity, the important quantity for the calculations is AW)
Throughput AW [mm^2sr] 1.25 <= defined with hs/l^2, so depends only on hs, which is the integral of taper function up to the edge of the antena
Horn spill-over: hs = AW/l^2 0.86 <= assumes a edge taper Te = 2.2*u^2,  I didn't find a reference allowing to find the actual hs, but it is compatible with geometries described in Goldsmith
Pixel efficiency on diffraction spot z 53%
FOV diameter ['] Number pixels in FOV discs, rounded at the upper group of 10s
1 10
2 40
3 90
4 160
5 250
6 360
7 480
8 630
9 800
10 980
11 1190
12 1410
My simple ATM model
Based on fits on ATM from Astro in Gildas, for the 50-400GHz range, with the error constraint |Dt/t|<4% at 100kHz resolution in the bands and 1MHz resolution in the atmospheric "walls",
built with Tatm = 275 K, Psea_level = 1015 mb, Altitude = Pico Veleta (Tau~P and Tau~T^3 => wv has the strongest effect in the range of possible P and T,
so my model ignore dependence in T and P for simplicity)
Continuum
Reference frequency nc [GHz] 250
225
Water Vapor slope ac [1/mmwv] 0.071 0.058
Dry continnum at nc bc 0.005 0.004
Kinetic lines
Central frequency no [GHz] 58.2 60.2 118.7 183.3 325.1 368.5 380.2
Width ns [GHz] 2.5 2 1 2.96 3.47 0.56 3.49
Central tau to 3.2 11.5 9.4 2.2 2 1 19
Water power pl (0 = O2 line, 1 = H2O line) 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
Gaussians fitting groups of close-packeted lines
Central frequency no [GHz] 58.1 62 65.3 440
Width ns [GHz] 2.5 2.1 3.1 80
Central tau to 17.6 20.2 0.2 0.13
Water power pl (0 = O2 line, 1 = H2O line) 0 0 0 1
Simple photometry calculations (reminder for the units of NEP: prefix "a" = atto = 10^-18)
Remarks 1: the RJ temperatures below are defined so that when used in the RJ approximation formula of the brightness, the result = the unapproximated Planck law
Remarks 2: the Power formula below assumes constant T (brightness) and h (overall efficiency) in the integration over the bandwidth => correct @ <2 % error in the mm atmospheric windows for T>2K
Remarks 3: the NET and NEFD are given for a choosen observing mode and for one pixel, their value for a standard size (beam of HPBW) is given at the end of the sheet
(Blockage M2 & quadurpod, leackage) 97%
4) Cabin optics transmission (M>2) 94%
5) Cryostat 300K transmission 90% 85% <= total warm parts
6) Cryostat 77K transmission 86%
7) Cryostat 4K transmission 86%
8) Band pass filter transmission 95% 70% <= total cold parts
9) Detector absorbtion efficiency 80% 47% <= total optical chain
Global optical efficiency h 42%
10) Bandwidht [GHz] Dn 100
Band pass min freq [GHz] 200
Band pass max freq [GHz] 300
Band pass min wave [mm] 1.5
Band pass max wave [mm] 1.0
Bandwidth [mm] 0.50
11) Degree of polarization 0
Polarization parameter p 1
  monomode or coherent or extended source: C = 1 ; multimode and incoherent point source: C ~= l^2/AW = 4/(pu^2) if u>3, C ~= exp(-(0.6*u^((u+2)/(u+1))) if 0<u<3 (empricial approx by me). C can't be >1.
12) Spatial coherance factor C 1.0 0.2 0.3
13) Observing mode useful time ratio 45% <= OnOff
Observing mode efficiency g 1.49
NEP to NET = T/P(T) = Q/exp(-t) ; NEP to NEFD = F/P(F) = J/exp(-t) (Q and J are defined such that they don't depend on the atmospheric conditions)
   Q = pl^2/(2kAWhDn) [K/pW] 1.0
   J = px/(AhzDn) [Jy/pW] 6
T/F: (Q/J)(x/z) = (l^2/2kW) = D^2/2ku^2 [K/Jy] 0.30 0.30 0.08
 x/z 1.72
Atmosphere
14) Atmosphere  temperature (Ta) [K] 275
Black body occupation number at n 22
Brightness for frequencies [fW/m^2/Hz/sr] 5.2
(RJ approx brightness [fW/m^2/Hz/sr]) 5.3
Black body RJ temperature T [K] 269
15) Elevation [deg] 60
Airmass 1.15
16) Precipitable water vapor (wv) [mm] 1
Opacity tau meter (225GHz) 0.06
Opacity tau meter (225GHz) 0.06
  Opacity components for each band:
Atm continuum only 0.076
Atm O2 kinetic lines 0.001
Atm H2O kinetic lines 0.004
Atm O2 gaussian bunch 0.000
Atm H2O gaussian bunch 0.000
Atm total t (including airmass) 0.10
Emissivity 9%
Spectral radiance of atmosphere [fW/m^2/Hz/sr] 0.47
Atmos emission T RJ [K] T 24
Power [pW] P=(2AWh/p)kTDn/l^2 24.6
NEPp = (2hnP)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 90
NEPb = P(pC/Dn)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 78
NEP 119
NETp = gNEPpQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.15
NETb = gNEPbQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.13
NET 0.19
NEFDp = gNEPpJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 0.9
NEFDb = gNEPbJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 0.7
NEFD 1.1
Spillover
Temperature of environment behind M1 [K] 275
Emissivity 8%
Spectral radiance of behind M1 [fW/m^2/Hz/sr] 0.44
T RJ [K] 22.8
Power [pW] P=(2AWh/p)kTDn/l^2 25.0 3.9%
NEPp = (2hnP)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 91
NEPb = P(pC/Dn)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 79
NEP 121
NETp = gNEPpQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.15
NETb = gNEPbQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.13
NET 0.20
NEFDp = gNEPpJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 0.9
NEFDb = gNEPbJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 0.7
NEFD 1.1
300K optics
(17) Mean surface temperature [K] 280
Black body occupation number at n 23
Black body RJ temperature T [K] 274
Emissivity mirrors / cryostat 5.9% 9.8% 15% <= emissivity of system mirrors + cryostat
Spectral radiance of mirrors [fW/m^2/Hz/sr] 0.31
Spectral radiance of warm optics [fW/m^2/Hz/sr] 0.51
T RJ for mirrors [K] 16.0 41.2 <= system mirrors + cryostat
T RJ for cryostat warm optics [K] 26.7
    For P: apply x to mirrors (correct or not ?) but not to cryostat 300K
Power [pW] P=(2AWh/p)kTDn/l^2 53.3 54.9 50.3 <= system mirrors + cryostat with/without x
details of P: mirror / cryostat 17.7 35.6
NEPp = (2hnP)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 133
NEPb = P(pC/Dn)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 169
NEP 215
NETp = gNEPpQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.22
NETb = gNEPbQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.27
NET 0.35
NEFDp = gNEPpJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 1.3
NEFDb = gNEPbJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 1.6
NEFD 2.0
77K stage
Temperature cryostat optics on N2 stage [K] 77
Black body occupation number at n 6
Black body RJ temperature T [K] 71
Emissivity 14%
Spectral radiance of N2 stage [fW/m^2/Hz/sr] 0.19
T RJ for [K] 10
Power [pW] P=(2AWh/p)kTDn/l^2 15.8
NEPp = (2hnP)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 72
NEPb = P(pC/Dn)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 50
NEP 88
NETp = gNEPpQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.12
NETb = gNEPbQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.08
NET 0.14
NEFDp = gNEPpJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 0.7
NEFDb = gNEPbJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 0.5
NEFD 0.8
TOTAL BACKGROUD
Power [pW] 119 mapping estimator (my try, need to check iram web page time estimator, and values in CT proposal):
aa = angular coverage in sky of 117 pix [as^2] 11119
NEPp = (2hnP)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 198 am = angular size of the map [as^2] (must be > aa (*)) 90000
NEPb = P(pC/Dn)^0.5 [aW/Hz^0.5] 375 ff = filling factor (only for am > aa (*)) 8
NEP [aW/Hz^0.5] 424 ti = integration time [h] 8
rms assuming homogeneous ti on the map [mJy] 0.19
NETp = gNEPpQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.32 verification of the method:
NETb = gNEPbQ/exp(-t) [mK*s^0.5] 0.61 NEFD from CT proposal [mJy*s^0.5] 45
NET [mK*s^0.5] 0.69 rms assuming homogeneous ti on the map [mJy] 2.15
NEFDp = gNEPpJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 1.9 (*) if am < aa, need to calculate the nb of pixelsto use & subscan necessary to fill the gaps between pixel
NEFDb = gNEPbJ/exp(-t) [mJy*s^0.5] 3.6
NEFD [mJy*s^0.5] 4.0
TOTAL BACKGROUD for a standard elementary size
(18) Standard elementary size us [Fl] 2.44
(19) spatial coherence factor Cs 1 (<= extended source) 0.1 0.2 (<= incoherent point source approxs : u<3 and u>3)
Diffractive gaussian efficiency zs 56%
zs/z 1.05
P ~ (us/u)^2 [pW] 176.6
NEPp ~ (us/u) 242
NEPb ~ (us/u)^2*(Cs/C)^0.5 559
NEP [aW/Hz^0.5] 609
NETp ~ 1/(us/u) 0.26
NETb ~ (Cs/C)^0.5 0.61
NET [mK*s^0.5] 0.67
NEFDp ~ (us/u)/(zs/z) 2.2
NEFDb ~ (us/u)^2*(Cs/C)^0.5/(zs/z) 5.0
NEFD [mJy*s^0.5] 5.5