Friday, January 18, 2013

1301.4145 (Aurélien Benoit-Lévy et al.)

Full-sky CMB lensing reconstruction in presence of sky-cuts    [PDF]

Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Typhaine Déchelette, Karim Benabed, Jean-François Cardoso, Duncan Hanson, Simon Prunet
We consider the reconstruction of the CMB lensing potential and its power spectrum of the full sphere in presence of sky-cuts due to point sources and Galactic contaminations. Those two effects are treated separately. Small regions contaminated by point sources are filled in using Gaussian constrained realizations. The Galactic plane is simply masked using an apodized mask before lensing reconstruction. This algorithm recovers the power spectrum of the lensing potential with no significant bias.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4145

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