Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-12-19
Phys.Rev.D68:042002,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.042002
The coming flood of CMB polarization experiments, spurred by the recent detection of CMB polarization by DASI and WMAP, will be confronted by many new analysis tasks specific to polarization. For the analysis of CMB polarization data sets, the devil is truly in the details. With this in mind, we present the details of the data analysis for the POLAR experiment, which recently led to the tightest upper limits on the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at large angular scales. We discuss the data selection process, mapmaking algorithms, offset removal, and the likelihood analysis which were used to find upper limits on the polarization. Stated using the modern convention for reporting CMB Stokes parameters, these limits are 5.0 \uK on both E-type and B-type polarization at 95% confidence. Finally, we discuss simulations used to test our analysis techniques and to probe the fundamental limitations of the experiment.
de Oliveira-Costa Angélica
Keating Brian G.
O'Dell Christopher W.
Tegmark Max
Timbie Peter T.
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