The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches

Autor: Valentina Fanfani, Mario Zannoni, Mark J. Devlin, J. Colin Hill, Josquin Errard, Aritoki Suzuki, Gabriele Coppi, Edward J. Wollack, Julien Carron, Adrian T. Lee, Thibaut Louis, Davide Poletti, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Michael L. Brown, Baptiste Jost, Brian Keating, Federico Nati, P. Daniel Meerburg, S. Azzoni, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Haruki Nishino, Sara M. Simon, Michael J. Randall, Jacob Spisak, Lyman A. Page, Bradley R. Johnson, Jo Dunkley, Yuji Chinone, Aamir Ali, David Alonso, Grant Teply, Jeff McMahon, Carlo Baccigalupi, Clara Vergès, Jens Chluba, Aditya Rotti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Nicholas Galitzki, Kevin D. Crowley, Martina Gerbino, Zhilei Xu, Jack Lashner, Erminia Calabrese, Kevin T. Crowley, Darcy Barron, Akito Kusaka, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Heather McCarrick
Přispěvatelé: AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and G, High-Energy Frontier, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), APC - Cosmologie, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-17-CE31-0022,BxB,Champs B interstellaires et modes B de l'inflation(2017), ANR-17-CE23-0002,B3DCMB,Big Bang à partir de Big Data (du fond diffus cosmologique)(2017), Abitbol, M, Alonso, D, Simon, S, Lashner, J, Crowley, K, Ali, A, Azzoni, S, Baccigalupi, C, Barron, D, Brown, M, Calabrese, E, Carron, J, Chinone, Y, Chluba, J, Coppi, G, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Errard, J, Fanfani, V, Galitzki, N, Gerbino, M, Colin Hill, J, Johnson, B, Jost, B, Keating, B, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kusaka, A, Lee, A, Louis, T, Madhavacheril, M, Mccarrick, H, Mcmahon, J, Daniel Meerburg, P, Nati, F, Nishino, H, Page, L, Poletti, D, Puglisi, G, Randall, M, Rotti, A, Spisak, J, Suzuki, A, Teply, G, Vergès, C, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zannoni, M
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
CMBR polarisation
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Calibration (statistics)
Cosmic microwave background
FOS: Physical sciences
Parameter space
Residual
Atomic
01 natural sciences
Particle and Plasma Physics
Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica
Band-pass filter
Observatory
0103 physical sciences
CMBR experiments
Nuclear
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
CMBR polarization
Physics
Settore FIS/05
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
cosmological parameters from CMBR
Molecular
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Polarization (waves)
Nuclear & Particles Physics
gravitational waves and CMBR polarization
Computational physics
astro-ph.CO
CMBR experiment
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Focus (optics)
Astronomical and Space Sciences
astro-ph.IM
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Zdroj: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol 2021, iss 05
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol 2021, iss 5
HAL
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JCAP
JCAP, 2021, 05, pp.032. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/032⟩
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021(5):032. IOP PUBLISHING LTD
ISSN: 1475-7516
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/032
Popis: We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory (SO). We explore uncertainties on gain calibration, bandpass center frequencies, and polarization angles, including the frequency variation of the latter across the bandpass. We find that gain calibration and bandpass center frequencies must be known to percent levels or less to avoid biases on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ on the order of $\Delta r\sim10^{-3}$, in line with previous findings. Polarization angles must be calibrated to the level of a few tenths of a degree, while their frequency variation between the edges of the band must be known to ${\cal O}(10)$ degrees. Given the tightness of these calibration requirements, we explore the level to which residual uncertainties on these systematics would affect the final constraints on $r$ if included in the data model and marginalized over. We find that the additional parameter freedom does not degrade the final constraints on $r$ significantly, broadening the error bar by ${\cal O}(10\%)$ at most. We validate these results by reanalyzing the latest publicly available data from the BICEP2/Keck collaboration within an extended parameter space covering both cosmological, foreground and systematic parameters. Finally, our results are discussed in light of the instrument design and calibration studies carried out within SO.
Comment: 41 pages, 18 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE