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Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-04-08 v1

Abstract

In this work we present an extension of the ROMA map-making code for data analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization, with particular attention given to the inflationary polarization B-modes. The new algorithm takes into account a possible cross-correlated noise component among the different detectors of a CMB experiment. We tested the code on the observational data of the BOOMERanG (2003) experiment and we show that we are provided with a better estimate of the power spectra, in particular the error bars of the BB spectrum are smaller up to 20% for low multipoles. We point out the general validity of the new method. A possible future application is the LSPE balloon experiment, devoted to the observation of polarization at large angular scales.

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@article{arxiv.1604.02062,
  title  = {Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background},
  author = {Alessandro Buzzelli and Paolo Cabella and Giancarlo de Gasperis and Nicola Vittorio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02062},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the 6th Young Researchers Meeting, L'Aquila, Oct 12th-14th 2015

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