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| author | Feder, Richard M. Bock, James J. Cheng, Yun-Ting Cooray, Asantha Korngut, Phillip M. Matsuura, Shuji Nguyen, Chi H. Takimoto, Kohji Zemcov, Michael collaboration, CIBER |
| author_facet | Feder, Richard M. Bock, James J. Cheng, Yun-Ting Cooray, Asantha Korngut, Phillip M. Matsuura, Shuji Nguyen, Chi H. Takimoto, Kohji Zemcov, Michael collaboration, CIBER |
| contents | Precise, unbiased measurements of extragalactic background anisotropies require careful treatment of systematic effects in fluctuation-based, broad-band intensity mapping measurements. In this paper we detail improvements in methodology for the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER), concentrating on flat field errors and source masking errors. In order to bypass the use of field differences, which mitigate flat field errors but reduce sensitivity, we characterize and correct for the flat field on pseudo-power spectra, which includes both additive and multiplicative biases. To more effectively mask point sources at 1.1 $μ$m and 1.8 $μ$m, we develop a technique for predicting masking catalogs that utilizes optical and NIR photometry through random forest regression. This allows us to mask over two Vega magnitudes deeper than the completeness limits of 2MASS alone, with errors in the shot noise power remaining below $<10\%$ at all masking depths considered. Through detailed simulations of CIBER observations, we validate our formalism and demonstrate unbiased recovery of the sky fluctuations on realistic mocks. We demonstrate that residual flat field errors comprise $<20\%$ of the final CIBER power spectrum uncertainty with this methodology. |
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| spellingShingle | CIBER 4th flight fluctuation analysis: Pseudo-power spectrum formalism, improved source masking and validation on mocks Feder, Richard M. Bock, James J. Cheng, Yun-Ting Cooray, Asantha Korngut, Phillip M. Matsuura, Shuji Nguyen, Chi H. Takimoto, Kohji Zemcov, Michael collaboration, CIBER Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Precise, unbiased measurements of extragalactic background anisotropies require careful treatment of systematic effects in fluctuation-based, broad-band intensity mapping measurements. In this paper we detail improvements in methodology for the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER), concentrating on flat field errors and source masking errors. In order to bypass the use of field differences, which mitigate flat field errors but reduce sensitivity, we characterize and correct for the flat field on pseudo-power spectra, which includes both additive and multiplicative biases. To more effectively mask point sources at 1.1 $μ$m and 1.8 $μ$m, we develop a technique for predicting masking catalogs that utilizes optical and NIR photometry through random forest regression. This allows us to mask over two Vega magnitudes deeper than the completeness limits of 2MASS alone, with errors in the shot noise power remaining below $<10\%$ at all masking depths considered. Through detailed simulations of CIBER observations, we validate our formalism and demonstrate unbiased recovery of the sky fluctuations on realistic mocks. We demonstrate that residual flat field errors comprise $<20\%$ of the final CIBER power spectrum uncertainty with this methodology. |
| title | CIBER 4th flight fluctuation analysis: Pseudo-power spectrum formalism, improved source masking and validation on mocks |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17932 |