http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08931
It has been pointed out that the spurious Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarization signals caused by the absorption of the CMB monopole component due to the Galactic interstellar matter, called the CMB shadow, degrade the accuracy of detecting the CMB B-mode polarization signals imprinted by primordial gravitational waves. We have made a realistic estimation using simulated sky maps of how the CMB shadow affects forthcoming high-precision CMB B-mode experiments for the first time. The Delta-map method, an internal template method taking into account the first-order spatial variation of foregrounds’ spectral parameters, is applied as a foreground removal method. We show that if the CMB shadow effects are not taken into account in the foreground removal process, future observations would lead to the false detection of the CMB B-mode polarization signals originating from primordial gravitational waves. We also show that the effect of the CMB shadow can be mitigated by our revised Delta-map method to target the CMB B-mode polarization signals at the level of tensor-to-scalar ratio r=0.001.
T. Murokoshi, Y. Chinone, M. Nashimoto, et. al.
Wed, 17 May 23
17/67
Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJL