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| author | Rosenberg, Erik Gratton, Steven Challinor, Anthony |
| author_facet | Rosenberg, Erik Gratton, Steven Challinor, Anthony |
| contents | Motivated by observed discrepancies between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 4 (ACT DR4) and Planck 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectra, particularly in the cross-correlation of temperature and E-mode polarization, we investigate challenges that may be encountered in the comparison of satellite and ground-based CMB data. In particular, we focus on the effects of Fourier-space filtering and masking involving bright point sources. We show that the filtering operation generates bright cross-shaped artifacts in the map, which stretch far outside typical point-source masks. If not corrected, these artifacts can add bias or additional variance to cross-spectra, skewing results. However we find that the effect of this systematic is not large enough to explain the ACT-Planck differences presented with ACT DR4. |
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| spellingShingle | Filtering in CMB data analysis with application to ACT DR4 and Planck observations Rosenberg, Erik Gratton, Steven Challinor, Anthony Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Motivated by observed discrepancies between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 4 (ACT DR4) and Planck 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectra, particularly in the cross-correlation of temperature and E-mode polarization, we investigate challenges that may be encountered in the comparison of satellite and ground-based CMB data. In particular, we focus on the effects of Fourier-space filtering and masking involving bright point sources. We show that the filtering operation generates bright cross-shaped artifacts in the map, which stretch far outside typical point-source masks. If not corrected, these artifacts can add bias or additional variance to cross-spectra, skewing results. However we find that the effect of this systematic is not large enough to explain the ACT-Planck differences presented with ACT DR4. |
| title | Filtering in CMB data analysis with application to ACT DR4 and Planck observations |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13995 |