Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments
We propose a new formalism to handle asymmetric beams in the data analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments. For any beam shape, the formalism finds the optimal circularly symmetric equivalent and is thus easily adaptable to existing data analysis methods. We demonstrate certain...
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| author | Wu, J Balbi, A Borrill, J Ferreira, P Hanany, S Jaffe, A Lee, A Oh, S Rabii, B Richards, P Smoot, G Stompor, R Winant, C |
| author_facet | Wu, J Balbi, A Borrill, J Ferreira, P Hanany, S Jaffe, A Lee, A Oh, S Rabii, B Richards, P Smoot, G Stompor, R Winant, C |
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| description | We propose a new formalism to handle asymmetric beams in the data analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments. For any beam shape, the formalism finds the optimal circularly symmetric equivalent and is thus easily adaptable to existing data analysis methods. We demonstrate certain key points by using a simulated highly elliptic beam and the beams and data of the MAXIMA-1 experiment, where the asymmetry is mild. We show that in both cases the formalism does not bias the angular power spectrum estimates. We analyze the limitations of the formalism and find that it is well suited for most practical situations. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:05624847-aac7-4dd5-8cef-a06a0b83ef7b2022-03-26T08:56:53ZAsymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experimentsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:05624847-aac7-4dd5-8cef-a06a0b83ef7bEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2001Wu, JBalbi, ABorrill, JFerreira, PHanany, SJaffe, ALee, AOh, SRabii, BRichards, PSmoot, GStompor, RWinant, CWe propose a new formalism to handle asymmetric beams in the data analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments. For any beam shape, the formalism finds the optimal circularly symmetric equivalent and is thus easily adaptable to existing data analysis methods. We demonstrate certain key points by using a simulated highly elliptic beam and the beams and data of the MAXIMA-1 experiment, where the asymmetry is mild. We show that in both cases the formalism does not bias the angular power spectrum estimates. We analyze the limitations of the formalism and find that it is well suited for most practical situations. |
| spellingShingle | Wu, J Balbi, A Borrill, J Ferreira, P Hanany, S Jaffe, A Lee, A Oh, S Rabii, B Richards, P Smoot, G Stompor, R Winant, C Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
| title | Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
| title_full | Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
| title_fullStr | Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
| title_short | Asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
| title_sort | asymmetric beams in cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments |
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