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| author | Kogut, A. Fixsen, Dale Aghanim, Nabila Chluba, Jens Chuss, David T. Delabrouille, Jacques Hensley, Brandon S. Hill, J. Colin Maffei, Bruno Pullen, Anthony R. Rotti, Aditya Switzer, Eric R. Wollack, Edward J. Zelko, Ioana |
| author_facet | Kogut, A. Fixsen, Dale Aghanim, Nabila Chluba, Jens Chuss, David T. Delabrouille, Jacques Hensley, Brandon S. Hill, J. Colin Maffei, Bruno Pullen, Anthony R. Rotti, Aditya Switzer, Eric R. Wollack, Edward J. Zelko, Ioana |
| contents | The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the spectrum and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Cosmological signals are small compared to the instantaneous instrument noise, requiring strict control of instrumental signals. The instrument design provides multiple levels of null operation, signal modulation, and signal differences, with only few-percent systematic error suppression required at each level. Jackknife tests based on discrete instrument symmetries provide an independent means to identify, model, and remove remaining instrumental signals. We use detailed time-ordered simulations, including realistic performance and tolerance parameters, to evaluate the instrument response to broad classes of systematic errors for both spectral distortions and polarization. The largest systematic errors contribute additional white noise at the few-percent level compared to the dominant photon noise. Coherent instrumental effects which do not integrate down are smaller still, and remain several orders of magnitude below the targeted cosmological signals. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Systematic error mitigation for the PIXIE Fourier transform spectrometer Kogut, A. Fixsen, Dale Aghanim, Nabila Chluba, Jens Chuss, David T. Delabrouille, Jacques Hensley, Brandon S. Hill, J. Colin Maffei, Bruno Pullen, Anthony R. Rotti, Aditya Switzer, Eric R. Wollack, Edward J. Zelko, Ioana Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the spectrum and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Cosmological signals are small compared to the instantaneous instrument noise, requiring strict control of instrumental signals. The instrument design provides multiple levels of null operation, signal modulation, and signal differences, with only few-percent systematic error suppression required at each level. Jackknife tests based on discrete instrument symmetries provide an independent means to identify, model, and remove remaining instrumental signals. We use detailed time-ordered simulations, including realistic performance and tolerance parameters, to evaluate the instrument response to broad classes of systematic errors for both spectral distortions and polarization. The largest systematic errors contribute additional white noise at the few-percent level compared to the dominant photon noise. Coherent instrumental effects which do not integrate down are smaller still, and remain several orders of magnitude below the targeted cosmological signals. |
| title | Systematic error mitigation for the PIXIE Fourier transform spectrometer |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00091 |