Trade-off studies on LiteBIRD reflectors

Hajime Sugai; Tomotake Matsumura; Junichi Suzuki; Muneyoshi Maki; Mitsugu Hosumi; Masashi Hazumi; Nobuhiko Katayama; Shin Utsunomiya; Shingo Kashima; Yuki Sakurai; Hiroaki Imada; Hirokazu Ishino; Takenori Fujii

doi:10.1117/12.2273765

5 September 2017 Trade-off studies on LiteBIRD reflectors

Hajime Sugai, Tomotake Matsumura, Junichi Suzuki, Muneyoshi Maki, Mitsugu Hosumi, Masashi Hazumi, Nobuhiko Katayama, Shin Utsunomiya, Shingo Kashima, Yuki Sakurai, Hiroaki Imada, Hirokazu Ishino, Takenori Fujii

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Proceedings Volume 10372, Material Technologies and Applications to Optics, Structures, Components, and Sub-Systems III; 103720I (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273765
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The LiteBIRD satellite aims at detecting a signature imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the primordial gravitational wave predicted in inflation, which is an exponentially expanding era before the hot big bang. The extraction of such weak spiral polarization patterns requires the precise subtraction of our Galaxy’s foreground emission such as the synchrotron and the dust emission. In order to separate them from the CMB by using their spectral shape differences, LiteBIRD covers a wide range of observing frequencies. The main telescope, Low Frequency Telescope (LFT), covers the CMB peak frequencies as well as the synchrotron emission. Based on the required sizes of optical elements in the LFT, an order of one meter, the telescope will consist of reflectors rather than lenses since the latter is limited in size availabilities of the corresponding materials. The image quality analysis provides the requirements of reflector surface shape errors within 30um rms. The requirement on surface roughness of 2μm rms is determined from the reflectance requirement. Based on these requirements, we have carried out tradeoff studies on materials used for reflectors and their support structures. One possibility is to athermalize with aluminum, with the expected thermal contract of 0.4% from room temperature to 4-10 K. Another possibility is CFRP with cyanate resin, which is lighter and has negligibly small thermal contraction. For the reflector surface shape measurements including in low temperature, photogrammetry is a strong candidate with suitable accuracy and dynamic range of measurements.

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Hajime Sugai, Tomotake Matsumura, Junichi Suzuki, Muneyoshi Maki, Mitsugu Hosumi, Masashi Hazumi, Nobuhiko Katayama, Shin Utsunomiya, Shingo Kashima, Yuki Sakurai, Hiroaki Imada, Hirokazu Ishino, and Takenori Fujii "Trade-off studies on LiteBIRD reflectors", Proc. SPIE 10372, Material Technologies and Applications to Optics, Structures, Components, and Sub-Systems III, 103720I (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273765

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