The Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) radiometers have been tested extensively during several dedicated campaigns. The present paper reports the principal noise properties of the LFI radiometers.
@article{arxiv.1001.4608,
title = {Noise Properties of the Planck-LFI Receivers},
author = {P. Meinhold and R. Leonardi and B. Aja and E. Artal and P. Battaglia and M. Bersanelli and E. Blackhurst and C. R. Butler and L. P. Cuevas and F. Cuttaia and O. D'Arcangelo and R. Davis and M. L. de la Fuente and M. Frailis and C. Franceschet and E. Franceschi and T. Gaier and S. Galeotta and A. Gregorio and R. Hoyland and N. Hughes and P. Jukkala and D. Kettle and M. Laaninen and P. Leutenegger and S. R. Lowe and M. Malaspina and R. Mandolesi and M. Maris and E. Martínez-González and L. Mendes and A. Mennella and M. Miccolis and G. Morgante and N. Roddis and M. Sandri and M. Seiffert and M. Salmón and L. Stringhetti and T. Poutanen and L. Terenzi and M. Tomasi and J. Tuovinen and J. Varis and L. Valenziano and F. Villa and A. Wilkinson and F. Winder and A. Zacchei and A. Zonca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4608},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
this paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/jinst