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蜘蛛优化II:光学、磁性和前景效果

Spider Optimization II: Optical, Magnetic and Foreground Effects

D. T. O'Dea, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri, S. J. Benton, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. A. Bonetti, S. Bryan, B. Burger, H. C. Chiang, C. N. Clark, C. R. Contaldi, B. P. … 展开作者

D. T. O'Dea, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri, S. J. Benton, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. A. Bonetti, S. Bryan, B. Burger, H. C. Chiang, C. N. Clark, C. R. Contaldi, B. P. Crill, G. Davis, O. Dore, M. Farhang, J. P. Filippini, L. M. Fissel, A. A. Fraisse, N. N. Gandilo, S. Golwala, J. E. Gudmundsson, M. Hasselfield, G. Hilton, W. Holmes, V. V. Hristov, K. Irwin, W. C. Jones, C. L. Kuo, C. J. MacTavish, P. V. Mason, T. E. Montroy, T. A. Morford, C. B. Netterfield, A. S. Rahlin, C. Reintsema, J. E. Ruhl, M. C. Runyan, M. A. Schenker, J. A. Shariff, J. D. Soler, A. Trangsrud, C. Tucker, R. S. Tucker, A. D. Turner, D. Wiebe

摘要:

Spider是一种气球携带的仪器,旨在以度尺度分辨率绘制大部分天空中宇宙微波背景(CMB)的偏振。Spider的主要目标是通过原始引力波对CMB偏振的影响来测量原始引力波的振幅,前提是张量与标量之比r大于0.03。为了实现这一目标,仪器系统误差必须以前所未有的精度进行控制。在这里,我们建立在以前的工作,使用模拟蜘蛛观测,以检查几个系统的影响,其特征在于通过测试和建模的各种仪器组件。特别是,我们调查的半波片,焦平面组件和地球的磁场之间的耦合,光束失配和不对称的非理想光谱响应的影响。我们还提出了一个基于银河系磁场和尘埃三维模型的扩散偏振前景发射模型,并研究了这种前景发射与我们的观测策略和仪器效应的相互作用。我们发现,预期的前景和系统污染水平足够低,蜘蛛实现其科学目标。

英文摘要:

Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large fraction of the sky. Spider's main goal is to measure the amplitude of primordial gravitational waves through their imprint on the polarization of the CMB if the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, is greater than 0.03. To achieve this goal, instrumental systematic errors must be controlled with unprecedented accuracy. Here, we build on previous work to use simulations of Spider observations to examine the impact of several systematic effects that have been characterized through testing and modeling of various instrument components. In particular, we investigate the impact of the non-ideal spectral response of the half-wave plates, coupling between focal plane components and the Earth's magnetic field, and beam mismatches and asymmetries. We also present a model of diffuse polarized foreground emission based on a three-dimensional model of the Galactic magnetic field and dust, and study the interaction of this foreground emission with our observation strategy and instrumental effects. We find that the expected level of foreground and systematic contamination is sufficiently low for Spider to achieve its science goals.

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