Removal of point source leakage from time-order data filtering [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13870


Time-ordered data (TOD) from ground-based CMB experiments are generally filtered before map-making to remove or reduce the contamination from the ground and the atmospheric emissions. However, when the observation region contains strong point sources, the filtering process will result in considerable leakage around the point sources in a measured CMB map, and leave spurious polarization signals. Therefore, such signals need to be assessed and removed before CMB science exploitation. In this work, we present a new method that we call “template fitting” and can effectively remove these leakage signals in pixel domain, not only satisfying the requirement for measuring primordial gravitational waves from CMB-$B$ modes, but also avoiding time-consuming operations on TOD.

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Z. Zhang, L. Huang, Y. Liu, et. al.
Mon, 28 Nov 22
88/93

Comments: 13pages, 6 figures, 5 tables