The Annulus-Filtered E and B Modes in CMBR Polarization

Details The Annulus-Filtered E and B Modes in CMBR Polarization The Annulus-Filtered E and B Modes in CMBR Polarization

2001-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101205v3

Astrophys.J. 578 (2002) 12-24

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

46 pages with 14 figures, accepted by ApJ. The substantially expanded revision contains the finite-beam effect for improving t

Scientific paper

10.1086/342398

Although it has previously been recognized that the CMB polarization measurement on a sky ring is able to separate the B and E-mode patterns, we show that the rotational symmetry of the CMB polarization measurement is indeed unique, in that it enables the B and E modes to be separately measured in a simple and clean manner. The separation of B and E modes can in principle be achieved even with a single-polarization detector of arbitrary beam pattern. Based on this premise, a specific observing strategy is suggested, where the telescope scans along a sky circle with the polarimeter axis always oriented to a fixed direction with respect to the radial direction of the sky circle. The observational strategy for B-mode measurements can further be refined by choosing appropriate beam sizes to suppress the accidental E-mode leakage. We present the expected variances of the measured E and B-mode surface-brightness fluctuations as functions of the sky annulus radius and beam size. The measured peak power is expected to be up to 10% of the total power contained in the CMB polarization fluctuations for both B and E modes. The temperature-polarization, or T-E, correlation can be measured by the present method as well. By adopting this strategy, the AMiBA experiment is expected to detect, in a single sky annulus, a 1\sigma$ B-mode signal in 340 hours.

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