Design Optimization

Optimization

	Design Optimization

	For speed and coverage in deep surveys, the design of the SPST telescope pursues an optimization strategy: Build a reflector whose beamsize is equal to the spatial scale of interest. Make the telescope losses, blockage, and spillover as small as possible at the frequencies of interest. Make the field of view as large as possible. Populate that field of view with as many broadband detectors as possible. Place that telescope at the best possible site. This assures that the SPST is an "optimal design" for the discovery of objects at spatial frequencies near 8 m/l, such as S-Z effect from high redshift clusters and inter-cluster filaments.