A map-making algorithm for the QUIJOTE CMB experiment

Guidi, F.; Quijote Collaboration
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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 2032, Issue 1, id.020002

Fecha de publicación:
10
2018
Número de autores
2
Número de autores del IAC
1
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0
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0
Descripción
In the last years we obtained a very detailed picture of the Primordial Universe by, among other means, measuring the intensity and the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). With the last space missions WMAP and Planck we entered in the precision Cosmology era. Nowadays, ground-based experiments are measuring the sky looking for the detection of promordial CMB B-modes, the tiny polarization signal relic from Inflation. This is one of the most challenging objectives of modern Cosmology, since many contaminants are strongly hiding it. For this purpose we must achieve a very precise characterization of the Galactic emission, and the ground experiments like QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) have a very important role in this context. We present the QUIJOTE experiment, a polarimeter amied to characterize the polarization of the CMB and of other galactic and extragalactic emission mechanisms, in the frequency range (10-40) GHz, and at large angular scales. Here we describe the map-making method that is applied to obtain the QUIJOTE maps. In particular, we report an implementation of the standard map-making algorithm, aimed to fit for some template functions, that we expect are affecting the data.