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CMB观测信号分离问题中“内部线性组合”方法的统计分析

A Statistical Analysis of the "Internal Linear Combination" Method in Problems of Signal Separation as in CMB Observations

R. Vio, P. Andreani

摘要:

目标:从宇宙微波背景(CMB)观测数据中分离出前景污染是宇宙学数字信号处理中最具挑战性和重要的问题之一。在文献中,已经提出了各种技术,但尚未就其实际性能和性质达成普遍共识。这是由于这些技术的特点,基本上是通过基于CMB和银河前景的半经验模型的数值模拟来研究的。这种模型通常具有不同的复杂程度和/或基于不同的物理假设(例如,银河组成部分的数量和噪音的水平)。因此,很难进行可靠的比较。实际上缺少的是对所提出的方法的特性的统计分析。在这里,我们考虑的“内部线性组合”方法(ILC),其中分离技术,需要最少数量的“先验”假设。这一特点是特别感兴趣的背景下的CMB偏振测量在小的角度尺度,缺乏知识的偏振背景代表了严重的限制。方法:通过分析方法研究了迭代学习控制的统计特性,确定了迭代学习控制的基本条件。结果:ILC仅在相当严格的条件下才能提供满意的结果。这是规划未来地面观测时必须考虑的一个关键事实(例如,与卫星实验相反,有可能对实验条件进行某种控制。

英文摘要:

AIMS: The separation of foreground contamination from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations is one of the most challenging and important problem of digital signal processing in Cosmology. In literature, various techniques have been presented, but no general consensus about their real performances and properties has been reached. This is due to the characteristics of these techniques that have been studied essentially through numerical simulations based on semi-empirical models of the CMB and the Galactic foregrounds. Such models often have different level of sophistication and/or are based on different physical assumptions (e.g., the number of the Galactic components and the level of the noise). Hence, a reliable comparison is difficult. What actually is missing is a statistical analysis of the properties of the proposed methodologies. Here, we consider the "Internal Linear Combination" method (ILC) which, among the separation techniques, requires the smallest number of "a priori" assumptions. This feature is of particular interest in the context of the CMB polarization measurements at small angular scales where the lack of knowledge of the polarized backgrounds represents a serious limit. METHODS: The statistical characteristics of ILC are examined through an analytical approach and the basic conditions are fixed in a way to work satisfactorily. RESULTS: ILC provides satisfactory results only under rather restrictive conditions. This is a critical fact to take into consideration in planning the future ground-based observations (e.g., with ALMA) where, contrary to the satellite experiments, there is the possibility to have a certain control of the experimental conditions.

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