Map-making methods for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments

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2001-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110407v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) 497

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages without the figures, 11 JPEG figures out of the text, MNRAS, in press

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05057.x

The map-making step of Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis involves linear inversion problems which cannot be performed by a brute force approach for the large timelines of today. We present in this article optimal vector-only map-making methods, which are an iterative COBE method, a Wiener direct filter and a Wiener iterative method. We apply these methods on diverse simulated data, and we show that they produce very well restored maps, by removing nearly completely the correlated noise which appears as intense stripes on the simply pixel-averaged maps. The COBE iterative method can be applied to any signals, assuming the stationarity of the noise in the timeline. The Wiener methods assume both the stationarity of the noise and the sky, which is the case for CMB-only data. We apply the methods to Galactic signals too, and test them on balloon-borne experiment strategies and on a satellite whole sky survey.

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