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The effects of low temporal frequency modes on minimum variance maps from PLANCK

Astrophysics 2009-08-18 v2

Abstract

We estimate the effects of low temporal frequency modes in the time stream on sky maps such as expected from the PLANCK experiment -- a satellite mission designed to image the sky in the microwave band. We perform the computations in a semi-analytic way based on a simple model of PLANCK observations, which permits an insight into the structure of noise correlations of PLANCK-like maps, without doing exact, computationally intensive numerical calculations. We show that, for a set of plausible scanning strategies, marginalization over temporal frequency modes with frequencies lower than the spin frequency of the satellite (= 1/60 Hz) causes a nearly negligible deterioration of a quality of the resulting sky maps. We point out that this observation implies that it should be possible to successfully remove effects of long-term time domain parasitic signals from the PLANCK maps during the data analysis stage.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0308186,
  title  = {The effects of low temporal frequency modes on minimum variance maps from PLANCK},
  author = {R. Stompor and M. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0308186},
  year   = {2009}
}

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uses aa.cls, 13 pages, 1 figure, preprint, replaced to correct paper layout