Forecast of foreground cleaning strategies for AliCPT-1

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Junzhou, Ghosh, Shamik, Dou, Jiazheng, Liu, Yang, Li, Siyu, Chen, Jiming, Wang, Jiaxin, Zhang, Zhaoxuan, Delabrouille, Jacques, Remazeilles, Mathieu, Feng, Chang, Hu, Bin, Liu, Hao, Santos, Larissa, Zhang, Pengjie, Zhao, Wen, Zhang, Le, Huang, Zhi-Qi, Li, Hong, Kuo, Chao-Lin, Zhang, Xinmin
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author Zhang, Junzhou
Ghosh, Shamik
Dou, Jiazheng
Liu, Yang
Li, Siyu
Chen, Jiming
Wang, Jiaxin
Zhang, Zhaoxuan
Delabrouille, Jacques
Remazeilles, Mathieu
Feng, Chang
Hu, Bin
Liu, Hao
Santos, Larissa
Zhang, Pengjie
Zhao, Wen
Zhang, Le
Huang, Zhi-Qi
Li, Hong
Kuo, Chao-Lin
Zhang, Xinmin
author_facet Zhang, Junzhou
Ghosh, Shamik
Dou, Jiazheng
Liu, Yang
Li, Siyu
Chen, Jiming
Wang, Jiaxin
Zhang, Zhaoxuan
Delabrouille, Jacques
Remazeilles, Mathieu
Feng, Chang
Hu, Bin
Liu, Hao
Santos, Larissa
Zhang, Pengjie
Zhao, Wen
Zhang, Le
Huang, Zhi-Qi
Li, Hong
Kuo, Chao-Lin
Zhang, Xinmin
contents We report the test results of several independent foreground-cleaning pipelines used in the Ali CMB Polarization Telescope experiment (AliCPT-1), a high-altitude CMB imager in the Northern hemisphere with thousands of detectors dedicated to the search for a primordial CMB polarization $B$-mode signature. Based on simulated data from 4 detector modules and a single season of observation, which we refer to as Data Challenge 1 (DC1), we employ different and independent pipelines to examine the robustness and effectiveness of the estimates on foreground parameters and the primordial $B$-mode detection. The foreground-cleaning strategies used in the pipelines include the parametric method of template fitting (TF) and the non-parametric methods of the constrained internal linear combination (cILC), the analytical blind separation (ABS), and the generalized least squares (GLS). We examine the impact of possible foreground residuals on the estimate of the CMB tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$) for each pipeline by changing the contamination components in the simulated maps and varying the foreground models and sky patches for various tests. According to the DC1 data with the simulation input value $r_{\rm true}=0.023$, the foreground residual contamination levels in the TF/ABS/cILC/GLS pipelines are well within the corresponding statistical errors at the $2σ$ level. Furthermore, by utilizing the tension estimator, which helps identify significant residual foreground contamination in the detection of the primordial $B$-mode signal by quantifying the discrepancy between various $r$ measurements, we conclude that the presence of small foreground residuals does not lead to any significant inconsistency in the estimation of $r$.
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spellingShingle Forecast of foreground cleaning strategies for AliCPT-1
Zhang, Junzhou
Ghosh, Shamik
Dou, Jiazheng
Liu, Yang
Li, Siyu
Chen, Jiming
Wang, Jiaxin
Zhang, Zhaoxuan
Delabrouille, Jacques
Remazeilles, Mathieu
Feng, Chang
Hu, Bin
Liu, Hao
Santos, Larissa
Zhang, Pengjie
Zhao, Wen
Zhang, Le
Huang, Zhi-Qi
Li, Hong
Kuo, Chao-Lin
Zhang, Xinmin
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We report the test results of several independent foreground-cleaning pipelines used in the Ali CMB Polarization Telescope experiment (AliCPT-1), a high-altitude CMB imager in the Northern hemisphere with thousands of detectors dedicated to the search for a primordial CMB polarization $B$-mode signature. Based on simulated data from 4 detector modules and a single season of observation, which we refer to as Data Challenge 1 (DC1), we employ different and independent pipelines to examine the robustness and effectiveness of the estimates on foreground parameters and the primordial $B$-mode detection. The foreground-cleaning strategies used in the pipelines include the parametric method of template fitting (TF) and the non-parametric methods of the constrained internal linear combination (cILC), the analytical blind separation (ABS), and the generalized least squares (GLS). We examine the impact of possible foreground residuals on the estimate of the CMB tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$) for each pipeline by changing the contamination components in the simulated maps and varying the foreground models and sky patches for various tests. According to the DC1 data with the simulation input value $r_{\rm true}=0.023$, the foreground residual contamination levels in the TF/ABS/cILC/GLS pipelines are well within the corresponding statistical errors at the $2σ$ level. Furthermore, by utilizing the tension estimator, which helps identify significant residual foreground contamination in the detection of the primordial $B$-mode signal by quantifying the discrepancy between various $r$ measurements, we conclude that the presence of small foreground residuals does not lead to any significant inconsistency in the estimation of $r$.
title Forecast of foreground cleaning strategies for AliCPT-1
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01233