18–22 Apr 2011
Palais des Papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

Framework for performance forecasting and optimization of CMB B-mode observations in presence of astrophysical foregrounds

20 Apr 2011, 16:40
15m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des Papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des Papes, Avignon

Speaker

Mr Josquin Errard (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

Description

We derived a semi-analytic formalism for performance forecasting and optimization for future CMB experiments. The formalism accounts for statistical uncertainties due to the CMB sky statistics as well as presence of the foreground signals. We model the effects of subtraction of these using parametric maximum likelihood technique. As an illustration of this formalism, we performed in this work both performance forecasting and optimization of future satellite CMB B-mode observations.

Primary authors

Mr Federico Stivoli (INRIA, Orsay) Mr Josquin Errard (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie) Mr Radek Stompor (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

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