Primary Beam Chromaticity in HIRAX: I. Characterization from Simulations and Power Spectrum Implications
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| author | Sampath, Ajith Crichton, Devin Moodley, Kavilan Chiang, H. Cynthia Acedo, Eloy De Lera Dlamini, Simthembile Gaddam, Sindhu Gerodias, Kit M. Gueuning, Quentin Gupta, N. Hitz, Pascal Madhusudhan, Aditya Krishna Karigiri Krishna, Shreyam Parth Mugundhan, V. Retana-Montenegro, Edwin Saliwanchik, Benjamin R. B. Santos, Mario G. Walters, Anthony |
| author_facet | Sampath, Ajith Crichton, Devin Moodley, Kavilan Chiang, H. Cynthia Acedo, Eloy De Lera Dlamini, Simthembile Gaddam, Sindhu Gerodias, Kit M. Gueuning, Quentin Gupta, N. Hitz, Pascal Madhusudhan, Aditya Krishna Karigiri Krishna, Shreyam Parth Mugundhan, V. Retana-Montenegro, Edwin Saliwanchik, Benjamin R. B. Santos, Mario G. Walters, Anthony |
| contents | The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is an upcoming radio interferometric telescope designed to constrain dark energy through the 21cm intensity mapping of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Instrumental systematics must be controlled and carefully characterized to measure the 21cm power spectrum with fidelity and achieve high-precision constraints on the cosmological parameters. The chromaticity of the primary beam is one such complicated systematic, which can leak the power of spectrally smooth foregrounds beyond the ideal horizon limits due to the complex spatial and spectral structures of the sidelobes and the mainlobe. This paper studies the chromaticity of the HIRAX Stokes I primary beam and its effects on accurate measurements of the 21cm power spectrum. To investigate the effect of chromaticity in the 21cm power spectrum, we present a physically motivated beam modeling technique, which uses a flexible basis derived from traditional optics that can account for higher-order radial and azimuthal structures in the primary beam. We investigate the impact of imperfect knowledge of the mainlobe and sidelobes chromaticity in the power spectrum space by subtracting a simple foreground model in simulated snapshot visibilities to recover the H$\textsc{i}$ power spectrum. Additionally, we find that modeling up to the octupolar azimuthal order feature (fourth-order angular variation) in the primary beam is sufficient to reduce the leakage outside the wedge with minimal bias. |
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| spellingShingle | Primary Beam Chromaticity in HIRAX: I. Characterization from Simulations and Power Spectrum Implications Sampath, Ajith Crichton, Devin Moodley, Kavilan Chiang, H. Cynthia Acedo, Eloy De Lera Dlamini, Simthembile Gaddam, Sindhu Gerodias, Kit M. Gueuning, Quentin Gupta, N. Hitz, Pascal Madhusudhan, Aditya Krishna Karigiri Krishna, Shreyam Parth Mugundhan, V. Retana-Montenegro, Edwin Saliwanchik, Benjamin R. B. Santos, Mario G. Walters, Anthony Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is an upcoming radio interferometric telescope designed to constrain dark energy through the 21cm intensity mapping of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Instrumental systematics must be controlled and carefully characterized to measure the 21cm power spectrum with fidelity and achieve high-precision constraints on the cosmological parameters. The chromaticity of the primary beam is one such complicated systematic, which can leak the power of spectrally smooth foregrounds beyond the ideal horizon limits due to the complex spatial and spectral structures of the sidelobes and the mainlobe. This paper studies the chromaticity of the HIRAX Stokes I primary beam and its effects on accurate measurements of the 21cm power spectrum. To investigate the effect of chromaticity in the 21cm power spectrum, we present a physically motivated beam modeling technique, which uses a flexible basis derived from traditional optics that can account for higher-order radial and azimuthal structures in the primary beam. We investigate the impact of imperfect knowledge of the mainlobe and sidelobes chromaticity in the power spectrum space by subtracting a simple foreground model in simulated snapshot visibilities to recover the H$\textsc{i}$ power spectrum. Additionally, we find that modeling up to the octupolar azimuthal order feature (fourth-order angular variation) in the primary beam is sufficient to reduce the leakage outside the wedge with minimal bias. |
| title | Primary Beam Chromaticity in HIRAX: I. Characterization from Simulations and Power Spectrum Implications |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09527 |