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    About the connection between the CℓC_{\ell} power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Γm\Gamma_{m} Fourier spectrum of rings on the sky

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    In this article we present and study a scaling law of the mΓmm\Gamma_m CMB Fourier spectrum on rings which allows us (i) to combine spectra corresponding to different colatitude angles (e.g. several detectors at the focal plane of a telescope), and (ii) to recover the ClC_l power spectrum once the Γm\Gamma_m coefficients have been measured. This recovery is performed numerically below the 1% level for colatitudes Θ>80∘\Theta> 80^\circ degrees. In addition, taking advantage of the smoothness of the ClC_l and of the Γm\Gamma_m, we provide analytical expressions which allow to recover one of the spectrum at the 1% level, the other one being known.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure

    On the wavelet analysis of CMB time ordered data: application to Archeops

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    We present an alternative analysis of CMB time ordered data (TOD) using a wavelet-based representation of the data time-frequency plane. We demonstrate that the wavelet transform decorrelates 1/f1/f-type Gaussian stationary noise and permits a simple and functional description of locally stationary processes. In particular, this makes possible the generalization of the classical algorithms of map making and CMB power spectrum estimation to the case of locally stationary 1/f type noise. As an example, we present a wavelet based algorithm for the destriping of CMB-like maps. In addition, we describe a wavelet-based analysis of the Archeops data including time-frequency visualization, wavelet destriping and filtering of the TOD. These filtered data was used to produce polarized maps of Galactic dust diffuse emission. Finally, we describe the modeling of the non-stationarity on the Archeops noise for the estimation of the CMB power spectrum.Comment: submitted to A & A Figures in jpg format For a full postscript vesion of the paper, please contact the author

    First Detection of Polarization of the Submillimetre Diffuse Galactic Dust Emission by Archeops

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    We present the first determination of the Galactic polarized emission at 353 GHz by Archeops. The data were taken during the Arctic night of February 7, 2002 after the balloon--borne instrument was launched by CNES from the Swedish Esrange base near Kiruna. In addition to the 143 GHz and 217 GHz frequency bands dedicated to CMB studies, Archeops had one 545 GHz and six 353 GHz bolometers mounted in three polarization sensitive pairs that were used for Galactic foreground studies. We present maps of the I, Q, U Stokes parameters over 17% of the sky and with a 13 arcmin resolution at 353 GHz (850 microns). They show a significant Galactic large scale polarized emission coherent on the longitude ranges [100, 120] and [180, 200] deg. with a degree of polarization at the level of 4-5%, in agreement with expectations from starlight polarization measurements. Some regions in the Galactic plane (Gem OB1, Cassiopeia) show an even stronger degree of polarization in the range 10-20%. Those findings provide strong evidence for a powerful grain alignment mechanism throughout the interstellar medium and a coherent magnetic field coplanar to the Galactic plane. This magnetic field pervades even some dense clouds. Extrapolated to high Galactic latitude, these results indicate that interstellar dust polarized emission is the major foreground for PLANCK-HFI CMB polarization measurement.Comment: Submitted to Astron. & Astrophys., 14 pages, 12 Fig., 2 Table

    The Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Power Spectrum measured by Archeops

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    We present a determination by the Archeops experiment of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy in 16 bins over the multipole range l=15-350. Archeops was conceived as a precursor of the Planck HFI instrument by using the same optical design and the same technology for the detectors and their cooling. Archeops is a balloon-borne instrument consisting of a 1.5 m aperture diameter telescope and an array of 21 photometers maintained at ~100 mK that are operating in 4 frequency bands centered at 143, 217, 353 and 545 GHz. The data were taken during the Arctic night of February 7, 2002 after the instrument was launched by CNES from Esrange base (Sweden). The entire data cover ~ 30% of the sky.This first analysis was obtained with a small subset of the dataset using the most sensitive photometer in each CMB band (143 and 217 GHz) and 12.6% of the sky at galactic latitudes above 30 degrees where the foreground contamination is measured to be negligible. The large sky coverage and medium resolution (better than 15 arcminutes) provide for the first time a high signal-to-noise ratio determination of the power spectrum over angular scales that include both the first acoustic peak and scales probed by COBE/DMR. With a binning of Delta(l)=7 to 25 the error bars are dominated by sample variance for l below 200. A companion paper details the cosmological implications.Comment: A&A Letter, in press, 6 pages, 4 figures, see also http://www.archeops.or

    Temperature and polarization angular power spectra of Galactic dust radiation at 353 GHz as measured by Archeops

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    We present the first measurement of temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the diffuse emission of Galactic dust at 353 GHz as seen by Archeops on 20% of the sky. The temperature angular power spectrum is compatible with that provided by the extrapolation to 353 GHz of IRAS and DIRBE maps using \cite{fds} model number 8. For Galactic latitudes ∣bâˆŁâ‰„5|b| \geq 5 deg we report a 4 sigma detection of large scale (3≀ℓ≀83\leq \ell \leq 8) temperature-polarization cross-correlation (ℓ+1)CℓTE/2π=76±21ÎŒKRJ2(\ell+1)C_\ell^{TE}/2\pi = 76\pm 21 \mu\rm{K_{RJ}}^2 and set upper limits to the EE and BB modes at 11ÎŒKRJ211 \mu\rm{K_{RJ}}^2. For Galactic latitudes ∣bâˆŁâ‰„10|b| \geq 10 deg, on the same angular scales, we report a 2 sigma detection of temperature-polarization cross-correlation (ℓ+1)CℓTE/2π=24±13ÎŒKRJ2(\ell+1)C_\ell^{TE}/2\pi = 24\pm 13 \mu\rm{K_{RJ}}^2. These results are then extrapolated to 100 GHz to estimate the contamination in CMB measurements by polarized diffuse Galactic dust emission. The TETE signal is then 1.7±0.51.7\pm0.5 and 0.5±0.3ÎŒKCMB20.5\pm0.3 \mu\rm{K^2_{CMB}} for ∣bâˆŁâ‰„5|b| \geq 5 and 10 deg. respectively. The upper limit on EE and BB becomes 0.2ÎŒKCMB2(2σ)0.2 \mu\rm{K^2_{CMB}} (2\sigma). If polarized dust emission at higher Galactic latitude cuts is similar to the one we report here, then dust polarized radiation will be a major foreground for determining the polarization power spectra of the CMB at high frequencies above 100 GHz.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to A

    Archeops: A High Resolution Large Sky Balloon Experiment for Mapping CMB Anisotropies

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    Archeops is a balloon-borne instrument dedicated to measuring cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies at high angular resolution (8 arcminutes) over a large fraction (25%) of the sky in the millimetre domain. Based on Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) technology, cooled bolometers (0.1 K) scan the sky in total power mode with large circles at constant elevation. During the course of a 24-hour Arctic-night balloon flight, Archeops will observe a complete annulus on the sky in four frequency bands centered at 143, 217, 353 and 545 GHz with an expected sensitivity to CMB fluctuations of \~100muK for each of the 90 thousand 20 arcminute average pixels. We describe the instrument and its performance obtained during a test flight from Trapani (Sicily) to Spain in July 1999
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