N. Trappe,1 C. O'Sullivan,1 B. Maffeihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2214-5329,2 N. Aghanim,2 M. Abitol,3 E. Battistelli,4 J. Chluba,5 X. Coulon,6 P. de Bernardis,4 C. Hill,7 A. Kogut,8 S. Masi,4 L. Pagano,9 A. Rotti,5 G. Savini,10 A. Tartari11
1National Univ. of Ireland (Ireland) 2Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS (France) 3Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom) 4Sapienza Univ. di Roma (Italy) 5The Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom) 6Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (France) 7Columbia Univ. (United States) 8NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States) 9Univ. degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy) 10Univ. College London (United Kingdom) 11Univ. di Pisa (Italy)
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BISOU (Balloon Interferometer for Spectral Observations of the Universe) is a CNES phase zero study investigating the feasibility of observing spectral distortion in the CMB signal using a balloon-borne spectrometer, which also will act as a pathfinder for a future space mission dedicated to the measurements of the CMB spectral distortions. The CMB frequency spectrum is an important probe of the cosmological model. In this paper, we describe the optical layout and outline the initial optical analysis of the signal path and the reference beam path. The major challenge outlined is the inclusion of the required optical train in a confined volume of the cryostat. We include a multimoded description of the optical response of the system from the multimoded pyramidal horn through the optical path containing mirrors and wire grids and predict beam patterns on the sky.
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N. Trappe, C. O'Sullivan, B. Maffei, N. Aghanim, M. Abitol, E. Battistelli, J. Chluba, X. Coulon, P. de Bernardis, C. Hill, A. Kogut, S. Masi, L. Pagano, A. Rotti, G. Savini, A. Tartari, "Optical analysis of BISOU: a balloon project to measure the CMB spectral distortions," Proc. SPIE 12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 121901Q (31 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629286