Absolute polarization angle calibration using polarized diffuse Galactic emission observed by BICEP

Matsumura, Tomotake; Ade, Peter; Barkats, Denis; Barron, Darcy; Battle, John O.; Bierman, Evan M.; Bock, James J.; Chiang, H. Cynthia; Crill, Brendan P.; Dowell, C. Darren; Duband, Lionel; Hivon, Eric F.; Holzapfel, William L.; Hristov, Viktor V.; Jones, William C.; Keating, Brian G.; Kovac, John M.; Kuo, Chao-lin; Lange, Andrew E.; Leitch, Erik M.; Mason, Peter V.; Nguyen, Hien T.; Ponthieu, Nicolas; Pryke, Clem; Richter, Steffen; Rocha, Graca M.; Takahashi, Yuki D.; Yoon, Ki Won

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Absolute polarization angle calibration using polarized diffuse Galactic emission observed by BICEP

Proc. SPIE 7741, 77412O (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.856855

Tuesday 29 June 2010

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Tomotake Matsumura, Viktor V. Hristov, Peter V. Mason, and Steffen Richter

California Institute of Technology (USA)

Peter Ade

Univ. of Wales (United Kingdom)

Denis Barkats

Joint ALMA Office (Chile)

Darcy Barron and Brian G. Keating

Univ. of California, San Diego (USA)

John O. Battle, Evan M. Bierman, Erik M. Leitch, Hien T. Nguyen, and Graca M. Rocha

Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA)

James J. Bock

Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA) and California Institute of Technology (USA)

H. Cynthia Chiang and William C. Jones

Princeton Univ. (USA)

Brendan P. Crill, C. Darren Dowell, and Andrew E. Lange

California Institute of Technology (USA) and Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA)

Lionel Duband

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (France)

Eric F. Hivon

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (France)

William L. Holzapfel and Yuki D. Takahashi

Univ. of California, Berkeley (USA)

John M. Kovac

Harvard Univ. (USA)

Chao-lin Kuo

Stanford Univ. (USA)

Nicolas Ponthieu

Univ. Paris XI (France)

Clem Pryke

The Univ. of Chicago (USA)

Ki Won Yoon

National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)

We present a method of cross-calibrating the polarization angle of a polarimeter using Bicep Galactic observations. Bicep was a ground based experiment using an array of 49 pairs of polarization sensitive bolometers observing from the geographic South Pole at 100 and 150 GHz. The Bicep polarimeter is calibrated to ±0.01 in cross-polarization and less than ±0.7° in absolute polarization orientation. Bicep observed the temperature and polarization of the Galactic plane (R.A = 100° ~ 270° and Dec. = -67° ~ -48°). We show that the statistical error in the 100 GHz Bicep Galaxy map can constrain the polarization angle offset of Wmap W band to 0.6° ± 1.4°. The expected 1σ errors on the polarization angle cross-calibration for Planck or EPIC are 1.3° and 0.3° at 100 and 150 GHz, respectively. We also discuss the expected improvement of the Bicep Galactic field observations with forthcoming Bicep2 and Keck observations.

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Online Jul 15, 2010

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Tomotake Matsumura, Peter Ade, Denis Barkats, Darcy Barron, John O. Battle, Evan M. Bierman, James J. Bock, H. Cynthia Chiang, Brendan P. Crill, C. Darren Dowell, Lionel Duband, Eric F. Hivon, William L. Holzapfel, Viktor V. Hristov, William C. Jones, Brian G. Keating, John M. Kovac, Chao-lin Kuo, Andrew E. Lange, Erik M. Leitch, Peter V. Mason, Hien T. Nguyen, Nicolas Ponthieu, Clem Pryke, Steffen Richter, Graca M. Rocha, Yuki D. Takahashi and Ki Won Yoon, "Absolute polarization angle calibration using polarized diffuse Galactic emission observed by BICEP", Proc. SPIE 7741, 77412O (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.856855