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arxiv: 0907.4650 · v2 · submitted 2009-07-27 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

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Impact of the 1/f noise and the asymmetric beam on non-Gaussianity searches with Planck

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We study the impact of correlated instrumental noise and non-circular antenna beam patterns on primordial non-Gaussianity analysis. The two systematic effects are reproduced in the case of the Planck mission, using Planck-like realistic simulations. The non-Gaussian analysis is conducted with different approaches. First we adopt a blind approach, using the Spherical Mexican Hat Wavelet and the Minkowski functionals, and then a fNL estimator. We look respectively for false primordial non-Gaussian detections and for bias or variance increase in the estimated fNL value. Even if some slight effects are present, we can not observe any significant impact of the 1/f noise and the asymmetric beam on non-Gaussianity searches in the context of the Planck mission.

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