Abstract
Bolometric interferometry is a novel technique that has the ability to perform spectral imaging. A bolometric interferometer observes the sky in a wide frequency band and can reconstruct sky maps in several sub-bands within the physical band in post-processing of the data. This provides a powerful spectral method to discriminate between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and astrophysical foregrounds. In this paper, the methodology is illustrated with examples based on the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) which is a ground-based instrument designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the sky at millimeter wavelengths. We consider the specific cases of point source reconstruction and Galactic dust mapping and we characterize the point spread function as a function of frequency. We study the noise properties of spectral imaging, especially the correlations between sub-bands, using end-to-end simulations together with a fast noise simulator. We conclude showing that spectral imaging performance are nearly optimal up to five sub-bands in the case of QUBIC.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 035 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-27 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Volume | 2022 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 21 Apr 2022 |
Keywords
- CMBR experiments
- CMBR theory
- cosmological parameters from CMBR
- gravitational waves and CMBR polarization
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