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Improving Planck calibration by including frequency-dependent relativistic corrections

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2015-09-22 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The Planck satellite detectors are calibrated in the 2015 release using the "orbital dipole", which is the time-dependent dipole generated by the Doppler effect due to the motion of the satellite around the Sun. Such an effect has also relativistic time-dependent corrections of relative magnitude 10^(-3), due to coupling with the "solar dipole" (the motion of the Sun compared to the CMB rest frame), which are included in the data calibration by the Planck collaboration. We point out that such corrections are subject to a frequency-dependent multiplicative factor. This factor differs from unity especially at the highest frequencies, relevant for the HFI instrument. Since currently Planck calibration errors are dominated by systematics, to the point that polarization data is currently unreliable at large scales, such a correction can in principle be highly relevant for future data releases.

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@article{arxiv.1504.04897,
  title  = {Improving Planck calibration by including frequency-dependent relativistic corrections},
  author = {Miguel Quartin and Alessio Notari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04897},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Discussion improved and references added. Accepted for publication in JCAP. 8 pages

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