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BeyondPlanck X. Bandpass and beam leakage corrections

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-06-28 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We discuss the treatment of bandpass and beam leakage corrections in the Bayesian BeyondPlanck CMB analysis pipeline as applied to the Planck LFI measurements. As a preparatory step, we first apply three corrections to the nominal LFI bandpass profiles including removal of a known systematic effect in the ground measuring equipment at 61 GHz; smoothing of standing wave ripples; and edge regularization. The main net impact of these modifications is an overall shift in the 70 GHz bandpass of +0.6 GHz; we argue that any analysis of LFI data products, either from Planck or BeyondPlanck, should use these new bandpasses. In addition, we fit a single free bandpass parameter for each radiometer of the form Δi=Δ0+δi\Delta_i = \Delta_0 + \delta_i, where Δ0\Delta_0 represents an absolute frequency shift per frequency band and δi\delta_i is a relative shift per detector. The absolute correction is only fitted at 30 GHz with a full χ2\chi^2-based likelihood, resulting in a correction of Δ30=0.24±0.03\Delta_{30}=0.24\pm0.03\,GHz. The relative corrections are fitted using a spurious map approach, fundamentally similar to the method pioneered by the WMAP team, but without introducing many additional degrees of freedom. All bandpass parameters are sampled using a standard Metropolis sampler within the main BeyondPlanck Gibbs chain, and bandpass uncertainties are thus propagated to all other data products in the analysis. In total, we find that our bandpass model significantly reduces leakage effects. For beam leakage corrections, we adopt the official Planck LFI beam estimates without additional degrees of freedom, and only marginalize over the underlying sky model. We note that this is the first time leakage from beam mismatch has been included for Planck LFI maps.

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@article{arxiv.2201.03417,
  title  = {BeyondPlanck X. Bandpass and beam leakage corrections},
  author = {T. L. Svalheim and K. J. Andersen and R. Aurlien and R. Banerji and M. Bersanelli and S. Bertocco and M. Brilenkov and M. Carbone and L. P. L. Colombo and H. K. Eriksen and M. K. Foss and C. Franceschet and U. Fuskeland and S. Galeotta and M. Galloway and S. Gerakakis and E. Gjerløw and B. Hensley and D. Herman and M. Iacobellis and M. Ieronymaki and H. T. Ihle and J. B. Jewell and A. Karakci and E. Keihänen and R. Keskitalo and G. Maggio and D. Maino and M. Maris and S. Paradiso and B. Partridge and M. Reinecke and A. -S. Suur-Uski and D. Tavagnacco and H. Thommesen and D. J. Watts and I. K. Wehus and A. Zacchei and A. Zonca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03417},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

14 pages, 11 figures, this is part 10 in the BeyondPlanck release. All BeyondPlanck products and software will be released publicly at http://beyondplanck.science. Submitted to A&A

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