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Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 90 GHz telescope pointing, beam profile, window function, and polarization performance
Datta, Rahul
Brewer, Michael
Couto, Jullianna
Eimer, Joseph
Li, Yunyang
Xu, Zhilei
Ali, Aamir
Appel, John
Bennett, Charles
Chuss, David
Cleary, Joseph
Dahal, Sumit
Raul Javier Espinoza Inostroza, Francisco
Essinger-Hileman, Thomas
Fluxá, Pedro
Harrington, Kathleen
Helson, Kyle
Iuliano, Jeffrey
Karakla, John
Marriage, Tobias
Novack, Sasha
Núñez, Carolina
Padilla, Ivan
Parker, Lucas
Petroff, Matthew
Reeves, Rodrigo
Rostem, Karwan
Shi, Rui
Valle, Deniz
Watts, Duncan
Weiland, Janet
Wollack, Edward
Zeng, Lingzhen
American Astronomical Society
2024
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over ∼75% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz. CLASS measures the large angular scale CMB polarization to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the optical depth to last scattering. This paper presents the optical characterization of the 90 GHz telescope. Observations of the Moon establish the pointing while dedicated observations of Jupiter are used for beam calibration. The standard deviations of the pointing error in azimuth, elevation, and boresight angle are 1 3, 2 1, and 2 0, respectively, over the first 3 yr of observations. This corresponds to a pointing uncertainty ∼7% of the beam’s full width at half-maximum (FWHM). The effective azimuthally symmetrized instrument 1D beam estimated at 90 GHz has an FWHM of 0°. 620 ± 0°.003 and a solid angle of 138.7 ± 0.6(stats.) ± 1.1(sys.) μsr integrated to a radius of 4°. The corresponding beam window function drops to bℓ = 0.93, 0.71, 0.14 2 at ℓ = 30, 100, 300, respectively. Far-sidelobes are studied using detector-centered intensity maps of the Moon and measured to be at a level of 10−3 or below relative to the peak. The polarization angle of Tau A estimated from preliminary survey maps is 149°.6 ± 0°.2(stats.) in equatorial coordinates. The instrumental temperature-to-polarization (T → P) leakage fraction, inferred from per-detector demodulated Jupiter scan data, has a monopole component at the level of 1.7 × 10−3, a dipole component with an amplitude of 4.3 × 10−3, with no evidence of quadrupolar leakage.
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