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Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Mitigation of systematic effects

Natoli, P., Ashdown, M., Banerji, R., Borrill, J., Buzzelli, A., de Gasperis, G., Delabrouille, J., Hivon, E., Molinari, D., Patanchon, G., Polastri, L., Tomasi, M., Bouchet, F.R., Henrot-Versillé, S., Hoang, D.T., Keskitalo, R., Kiiveri, K., Kisner, T., Lindholm, V., McCarthy, D., Piacentini, F., Perdereau, O., Polenta, G., Tristram, M., Achucarro, A., Ade, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Allison, R., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A.J., Bartlett, J., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Baumann, D., Bersanelli, M., Bonaldi, A., Bonato, M., Boulanger, F., Brinckmann, T., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Cai, Z.-Y., Calvo, M., Carvalho, C.-S., Castellano, M.G., Challinor, A., Chluba, J., Clesse, S., Colantoni, I., Coppolecchia, A., Crook, M., D'Alessandro, G., de Bernardis, P., Zotti, G. De, Valentino, E. Di, Diego, J.-M., Errard, J., Feeney, S., Fernandez-Cobos, R., Finelli, F., Forastieri, F., Galli, S., Genova-Santos, R., Gerbino, M., González-Nuevo, J., Grandis, S., Greenslade, J., Gruppuso, A., Hagstotz, S., Hanany, S., Handley, W., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Hervías-Caimapo, C., Hills, M., Keihänen, E., Kitching, T., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lamagna, L., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lesgourgues, J., Lewis, A., Liguori, M., López-Caniego, M., Luzzi, G., Maffei, B., Mandolesi, N., Martinez-González, E., Martins, C.J.A.P., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Melchiorri, A., Melin, J.-B., Migliaccio, M., Monfardini, A., Negrello, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7925-7663, Notari, A., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Piat, M., Pisano, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Pollo, A., Poulin, V., Quartin, M., Remazeilles, M., Roman, M., Rossi, G., Rubino-Martin, J.-A., Salvati, L., Signorelli, G., Tartari, A., Tramonte, D., Trappe, N., Trombetti, T., Tucker, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Valiviita, J., de Weijgaert, R. Van, Tent, B. van, Vennin, V., Vielva, P., Vittorio, N., Wallis, C., Young, K. and Zannoni, M. 2018. Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Mitigation of systematic effects. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2018 (04) , 022. 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/04/022

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Abstract

We present an analysis of the main systematic effects that could impact the measurement of CMB polarization with the proposed CORE space mission. We employ timeline-to-map simulations to verify that the CORE instrumental set-up and scanning strategy allow us to measure sky polarization to a level of accuracy adequate to the mission science goals. We also show how the CORE observations can be processed to mitigate the level of contamination by potentially worrying systematics, including intensity-to-polarization leakage due to bandpass mismatch, asymmetric main beams, pointing errors and correlated noise. We use analysis techniques that are well validated on data from current missions such as Planck to demonstrate how the residual contamination of the measurements by these effects can be brought to a level low enough not to hamper the scientific capability of the mission, nor significantly increase the overall error budget. We also present a prototype of the CORE photometric calibration pipeline, based on that used for Planck, and discuss its robustness to systematics, showing how CORE can achieve its calibration requirements. While a fine-grained assessment of the impact of systematics requires a level of knowledge of the system that can only be achieved in a future study phase, the analysis presented here strongly suggests that the main areas of concern for the CORE mission can be addressed using existing knowledge, techniques and algorithms.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: IOP Publishing: Hybrid Open Access
ISSN: 1475-7516
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 6 April 2018
Date of Acceptance: 25 July 2017
Last Modified: 11 Nov 2023 20:04
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110567

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