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Table 3.

Instrument and noise specifications used to produce the simulations in this work.

Baseline Goal Pessimistic Optimistic
Frequency [GHz] FWHM [arcmin] Noise [μK-arcmin] Noise [μK-arcmin] knee knee αknee
27 91 46 33 30 15 −2.4
39 63 28 22 30 15 −2.4
93 30 3.5 2.5 50 25 −2.5
145 17 4.4 2.8 50 25 −3.0
225 11 8.4 5.5 70 35 −3.0
280 9 21 14 100 40 −3.0

Notes. It should be stressed that these levels correspond to homogeneous noise, while our default analysis assumes noise maps weighted according to the SAT hits map.

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