Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-03-20
Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 437-445
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, accepted for publication on A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20035601
We analyze the instrumental polarization generated by the antenna system (optics and feed horn) due to the unpolarized sky emission. Our equations show that it is given by the convolution of the unpolarized emission map $T_b(\theta, \phi)$ with a sort of instrumental polarization beam $\Pi$ defined by the co- and cross-polar patterns of the antenna. This result is general, it can be applied to all antenna systems and is valid for all schemes to detect polarization, like correlation and differential polarimeters. The axisymmetric case is attractive: it generates an $E$-mode--like $\Pi$ pattern, the contamination does not depend on the scanning strategy and the instrumental polarization map does not have $B$-mode contamination, making axisymmetric systems suitable to detect the faint $B$-mode signal of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization. The $E$-mode of the contamination only affects the FWHM scales leaving the larger ones significantly cleaner. Our analysis is also applied to the SPOrt experiment where we find that the contamination of the $E$-mode is negligible in the $\ell$-range of interest for CMBP large angular scale investigations (multipole $\ell < 10$).
Carretti Ettore
Cortiglioni Stefano
Sbarra Ca.
Tascone Riccardo
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