A Data Simulation Pipeline for the AMiBA Project

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A Data Simulation Pipeline for the AMiBA Project

• M. Kesteven
• R. Sault
• R. Subrahmanyan

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AMiBA interferometer array to study the
polarisation of the microwave
CMB polarisation

• Taiwan (asiaa) project, with ATNF collaboration
• assistance in receiver construction
• assistance in the correlator design/construction
  
• assistance in system design

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CMB anisotropy -- Boomerang
3030 degree field
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CMB power spectrum - Boomerang
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AMIBA

• 19 Antennas.
• F 90 GHz, 20 GHz bandwidth
• 100 K System Temperature
• 8 spectral channel correlator
• Full stokes parameters

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Questions

• What is the best instrument for the experiment?
• What is a suitable configuration ?
• What is a suitable scanning strategy ?
• -gt Data simulation pipeline

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The Simulation pipeline

• Given Cosmological Model -gt Cl table
• Cl -gt 1717 degree maps (I/Q/U)
• Given array (config/antenna) -gt uvdata
• uvdata -gt reconstruct power spectrum compare
  sensitivities

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Power Spectra for given cosmological model
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Stokes I
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Linear Polarisation 1717 degrees 2 arcmin
pixels
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