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Separating E and B types of CMB polarization on an incomplete sky

This study proposes a new method to separate the E and B types of polarization on an incomplete sky, with minimal loss of information. The method is fast and applicable to high-resolution maps, allowing for analysis using various techniques. It can be applied to future observations including the Planck mission, ground-based, and balloon-borne experiments.

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Separating E and B types of CMB polarization on an incomplete sky

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  1. Separating E and B types of CMB polarization on an incomplete skyWen ZhaoBased on: WZ and D.Baskaran, Phys.Rev.D 82 023001 (2010)

  2. OUTLINE • Polarization of the CMB fields • Separating E and B types of polarization • Unbiased estimators of B-mode polarization • Summary

  3. E and B types of polarization of the CMB fields

  4. Thomson Scatter and Generation of PolarizationTwo factors:** Temperature Anisotropies ** Free electronsTwo stages: @ recombination stage @ reionization stage E-Polarization & B-Polarization

  5. CMB power spectra

  6. Various contaminations in observations • instrumental noises • foreground noises including synchrotron, dust, free-free emissions • cosmic weak lensing • various systematics including differential gain, differential beam width, first order pointing error, differential ellipticity of the beam, differential rotation, et al. • E-B mixture for the incomplete sky survey

  7. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky------- The problem: E-B mixture

  8. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Difficulty of the general method

  9. We adopt a different but related definition for electric and magnetic polarization maps: The relation between this definition and the general definition: Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- A new method

  10. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Applying to the incomplete sky So, in principle, we can construct the pure E and B types of polarization in the area where the window function

  11. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Separation in the pixel space • We assume a toy model: (1) observe the northern hemisphere; (2) no B-mode in the input model. • We adopt a typical window function:

  12. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Numerical errors

  13. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Numerical errors

  14. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Applying small-sky surveys • From now, we shall discuss the application of our method to the small partial sky surveys, which could be the case of various ground-based (i.e. QUIET, PolarBear) or balloon-borne (i.e. EBEX, PAPPER) experiments. • We shall work with a small fraction of the sky characterized by the window function with (corresponding to a 3% sky survey) • The input model, we assume the B-mode is generated by the cosmic weak lensing and gravitational waves (tensor perturbations) with r=0.1.

  15. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Applying to small-sky surveys • We simulate 1000 random samples of (Q, U), and construct the pure B-type polarization. We study the average of these samples. • This figure shows the averaged power spectrum of the B-mode polarization. • N.B. - adopt N_{side}=512 - edge removal at W=0.1

  16. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Comparing with the analytical results

  17. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Unbiased estimators for C_l^{BB} • There are mainly three ways to build the unbiased estimators of the power spectra: * Estimation using the pseudo-Cl (PCL) Fast, but having larger error bars! * Maximum likelihood estimation (ML) Smaller error bars, but slow! * Unbiased hybrid estimator Combining a ML at low multipoles and PCL at high multipoles!

  18. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Estimation using the pseudo-Cl

  19. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Ideal case without instrumental noise • Best choice of the weight function (future work)?

  20. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- loss of information • The information loss is only caused by the edge removal (in order to decrease the numerical errors). • In above case, we have removed 0.6% of the full sky, i.e. W=0.1 (conserved consideration). • This information loss can be reflected by increasing the error bars of the data (blue: ideal lossless case; red: realistic case).

  21. Separating E and B-modes on an incomplete sky-------- Applying to QUIET experiment

  22. Summary We propose a new method to separate the E and B types of polarization on an incomplete sky. The characters of this method are: The E and B fields are constructed in real space with minimal loss of information. The method is fast and can be applied to high resolution maps. The constructed maps are scalar fields. So various techniques (i.e. unbiased estimator, non-Gaussian analysis and so on) developed to deal with T maps can be directly applied to analyze these fields. The method can be applied to the future observations, including Planck mission, ground-based and balloon-borne experiments.

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