Cosmic microwave background power spectrum estimation with the destriping technique

Details Cosmic microwave background power spectrum estimation with the destriping technique Cosmic microwave background power spectrum estimation with the destriping technique

2004-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404134v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 353 (2004) 43

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 23 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08043.x

Extraction of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) angular power spectrum is a challenging task for current and future CMB experiments due to the large data sets involved. Here we describe an implementation of MASTER (Monte carlo Apodised Spherical Transform EstimatoR) which exploits the destriping technique as a map-making method. In this method a noise estimate based on destriped noise-only MC (Monte Carlo) simulations is subtracted from the pseudo angular power spectrum. As a working case we use realistic simulations of the PLANCK LFI (Low Frequency Instrument). We found that the effect of destriping on a pure sky signal is minimal and requires no correction. Instead we found an effect related to the distribution of detector pointings, which affects the high multipole part of the power spectrum. We correct for this by subtracting a ``signal bias'' estimated by MC simulations. We also give analytical estimates for this signal bias. Our method is fast and accurate enough (the estimator is un-biased and errors are close to theoretical expectations for maximal accuracy) to estimate the CMB angular power spectra for current and future CMB space missions. This study is related to PLANCK LFI activities.

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