Cosmic microwave background maps from the HACME experiment

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dc.creatorTegmark, Max
dc.creatorde Oliveira-Costa, Angelica
dc.creatorStaren, John
dc.creatorMeinhold, Peter
dc.creatorLubin, Philip
dc.creatorChilders, Jeffrey
dc.creatorFigueiredo, Newton
dc.creatorGaier, Todd
dc.creatorLim, Mark
dc.creatorSeiffert, Michael
dc.creatorVillela, Thyrso
dc.creatorWuensche, C. Alexandre
dc.date1997-11-11
dc.date2000-03-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:24:58Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:24:58Z
dc.descriptionWe present Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps from the Santa Barbara HACME balloon experiment (Staren etal 2000), covering about 1150 square degrees split between two regions in the northern sky, near the stars gamma Ursae Minoris and alpha Leonis, respectively. The FWHM of the beam is about 0.77 degrees in three frequency bands centered on 39, 41 and 43 GHz. The results demonstrate that the thoroughly interconnected scan strategy employed allows efficient removal of 1/f-noise and slightly variable scan-synchronous offsets. The maps display no striping, and the noise correlations are found to be virtually isotropic, decaying on an angular scale around one degree. The noise performance of the experiment resulted in an upper limit on CMB anisotropy. However, our results demonstrate that atmospheric contamination and other systematics resulting from the circular scanning strategy can be accurately controlled, and bodes well for the planned follow-up experiments BEAST and ACE, since they show that even with the overly cautious assumption that 1/f-noise and offsets will be as dominant as for HACME, the problems they pose can be readily overcome with the mapmaking algorithm discussed. Our prewhitened notch-filter algorithm for destriping and offset removal should be useful also for other balloon- and ground-based experiments whose scan strategies involve substantial interleaving.
dc.descriptionGreatly expanded version accepted to ApJ, including a fully worked and illustrated signal-to-noise analysis that is hopefully of pedagogical use. 7 ApJ pages. Color figs and links at http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~max/hacmemaps_frames.html or from max@physics.upenn.edu
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711076
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711076
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11759
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleCosmic microwave background maps from the HACME experiment
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