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估计张量-标量比和残余前景污染的影响

Estimating the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the effect of residual foreground contamination

Y. Fantaye, F. Stivoli, J. Grain, S. M. Leach, M. Tristram, C. Baccigalupi, R. Stompor

摘要:

我们认为未来的气球和地面为基础的亚轨道实验,旨在寻找暴胀引力波,并调查剩余的前景,估计宇宙微波背景地图的影响。这是通过在空间上均匀的前景频率缩放的假设下将前景建模不确定性从分量分离传播到功率谱估计,并且直到参数估计步骤中的张量与标量比的测量来实现的。我们的特点,由于减去前景的误差协方差,并发现它是次显性相比,仪器噪声和样本方差在我们的模拟数据分析。我们使用两个参数的幂律模型的未减的残留前景的贡献,并表明,边缘化这些前景参数是有效的,在占的偏见,由于过剩的前景功率在低$\ell$。我们的结论是,至少在亚轨道实验设置,我们已经模拟,前景误差可以建模和传播的参数估计只有轻微的退化,这些实验的目标灵敏度忽略前景的存在。

英文摘要:

We consider future balloon-borne and ground-based suborbital experiments designed to search for inflationary gravitational waves, and investigate the impact of residual foregrounds that remain in the estimated cosmic microwave background maps. This is achieved by propagating foreground modelling uncertainties from the component separation, under the assumption of a spatially uniform foreground frequency scaling, through to the power spectrum estimates, and up to measurement of the tensor to scalar ratio in the parameter estimation step. We characterize the error covariance due to subtracted foregrounds, and find it to be subdominant compared to instrumental noise and sample variance in our simulated data analysis. We model the unsubtracted residual foreground contribution using a two-parameter power law and show that marginalization over these foreground parameters is effective in accounting for a bias due to excess foreground power at low $\ell$. We conclude that, at least in the suborbital experimental setups we have simulated, foreground errors may be modeled and propagated up to parameter estimation with only a slight degradation of the target sensitivity of these experiments derived neglecting the presence of the foregrounds.

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