Thursday, December 8, 2011

1112.1400 (Alessio Notari et al.)

Measuring our Peculiar Velocity by "Pre-deboosting" the CMB    [PDF]

Alessio Notari, Miguel Quartin
It was recently shown that our peculiar velocity $\beta$ with respect to the CMB induces mixing among multipoles and off-diagonal correlations at all scales which can be used as a measurement of $\beta$, which is independent of the standard measure using the CMB temperature dipole. The proposed techniques rely however in an perturbative expansion which breaks down for $\ell \gtrsim 1/\beta = 800$. Here we propose a technique which consists of deboosting the CMB temperature in the time-ordered data and show that it extends the validity of the perturbation analysis multipoles up to $\ell ~ 10000$. We also obtain accurate fitting functions for the mixing between multipoles valid in a full non-linear treatment. Finally we forecast the achievable precision with which these correlations can be measured in a number of current and future CMB missions. We show that ACTPol could measure the velocity with a precision of around 70 km/s, Planck around 60 km/s, while proposed future experiments could shrink this error bar by over a factor of 2.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1400

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