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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Calibration with WMAP Using Cross-Correlations

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arxiv 1009.0777 v1 pith:R2PNGKU4 submitted 2010-09-03 astro-ph.CO astro-ph.IM

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Calibration with WMAP Using Cross-Correlations

Amir Hajian , Viviana Acquaviva , Peter A. R. Ade , Paula Aguirre , Mandana Amiri , John William Appel , L. Felipe Barrientos , Elia S. Battistelli
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We present a new calibration method based on cross-correlations with WMAP and apply it to data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT's observing strategy and map making procedure allows an unbiased reconstruction of the modes in the maps over a wide range of multipoles. By directly matching the ACT maps to WMAP observations in the multipole range of 400 < ell < 1000, we determine the absolute calibration with an uncertainty of 2% in temperature. The precise measurement of the calibration error directly impacts the uncertainties in the cosmological parameters estimated from the ACT power spectra. We also present a combined map based on ACT and WMAP data that has high signal-to-noise over a wide range of multipoles.

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