@article{000df8c4f3c8422c8728236ce20d9ee7,
title = "Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Mitigation of systematic effects",
abstract = "We present an analysis of the main systematic effects that could impact the measurement of CMB polarization with the proposed CORE space mission. We employ timeline-to-map simulations to verify that the CORE instrumental set-up and scanning strategy allow us to measure sky polarization to a level of accuracy adequate to the mission science goals. We also show how the CORE observations can be processed to mitigate the level of contamination by potentially worrying systematics, including intensity-to-polarization leakage due to bandpass mismatch, asymmetric main beams, pointing errors and correlated noise. We use analysis techniques that are well validated on data from current missions such as Planck to demonstrate how the residual contamination of the measurements by these effects can be brought to a level low enough not to hamper the scientific capability of the mission, nor significantly increase the overall error budget. We also present a prototype of the CORE photometric calibration pipeline, based on that used for Planck, and discuss its robustness to systematics, showing how CORE can achieve its calibration requirements. While a fine-grained assessment of the impact of systematics requires a level of knowledge of the system that can only be achieved in a future study phase, the analysis presented here strongly suggests that the main areas of concern for the CORE mission can be addressed using existing knowledge, techniques and algorithms.",
keywords = "CMBR experiments, CMBR polarization, gravitational waves and CMBR polarization",
author = "CORE and P. Natoli and M. Ashdown and R. Banerji and J. Borrill and A. Buzzelli and {De Gasperis}, G. and J. Delabrouille and E. Hivon and D. Molinari and G. Patanchon and L. Polastri and M. Tomasi and Bouchet, {F. R.} and S. Henrot-Versill{\'e} and Hoang, {Duc Thuong} and R. Keskitalo and K. Kiiveri and T. Kisner and V. Lindholm and D. McCarthy and F. Piacentini and O. Perdereau and G. Polenta and M. Tristram and A. Achucarro and P. Ade and R. Allison and C. Baccigalupi and M. Ballardini and Banday, {A. J.} and J. Bartlett and N. Bartolo and S. Basak and D. Baumann and M. Bersanelli and A. Bonaldi and M. Bonato and F. Boulanger and T. Brinckmann and M. Bucher and C. Burigana and Cai, {Z. Y.} and M. Calvo and Carvalho, {C. S.} and Castellano, {M. G.} and A. Challinor and J. Chluba and S. Clesse and I. Colantoni and A. Coppolecchia",
note = "Funding Information: This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. We also thank CSC — IT Center for Science (Finland) for computational resources. We acknowledge financial support by ASI Grant 2016-24-H.0 and Academy of Finland grant 295113. This work has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 687312. CJM is supported by an FCT Research Professorship, contract reference IF/00064/2012, funded by FCT/MCTES (Portugal) and POPH/FSE (EC). JGN acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MINECO for a {\textquoteleft}Ramon y Cajal{\textquoteright} fellowship (RYC-2013-13256) and the I+D 2015 project AYA2015-65887-P (MINECO/FEDER). GR acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through Grant No. 2017R1E1A1A01077508 funded by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), and from the faculty research fund of Sejong University in 2018. We thank Jean Kaplan for useful comments on the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1088/1475-7516/2018/04/022",
language = "English",
volume = "2018",
journal = "Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics",
issn = "1475-7516",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "4",
}