Extracting cosmic microwave background polarisation from satellite astrophysical maps

Details Extracting cosmic microwave background polarisation from satellite astrophysical maps Extracting cosmic microwave background polarisation from satellite astrophysical maps

2002-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209591v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.354:55-70,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, MNRAS in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08168.x

We present the application of the Fast Independent Component Analysis ({\ica}) technique for blind component separation to polarized astrophysical emission. We study how the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarized signal, consisting of $E$ and $B$ modes, can be extracted from maps affected by substantial contamination from diffuse Galactic foreground emission and instrumental noise. {We implement Monte Carlo chains varying the CMB and noise realizations in order to asses the average capabilities of the algorithm and their variance.} We perform the analysis of all sky maps simulated according to the {\sc Planck} satellite capabilities, modelling the sky signal as a superposition of the CMB and of the existing simulated polarization templates of Galactic synchrotron. Our results indicate that the angular power spectrum of CMB $E$-mode can be recovered on all scales up to $\ell\simeq 1000$, corresponding to the fourth acoustic oscillation, while the $B$-mode power spectrum can be detected, up to its turnover at $\ell\simeq 100$, if the ratio of tensor to scalar contributions to the temperature quadrupole exceeds 30%. The power spectrum of the cross correlation between total intensity and polarization, $TE$, can be recovered up to $\ell\simeq 1200$, corresponding to the seventh $TE$ acoustic oscillation.

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