Very bright regions where the sub-pixel effect in the SRoll CO foreground templates prevent them to be used for cosmology or astrophysics analysis

editing in progress

The bandpass corrections have been optimized for high latitude regions which implied to reduce the noise of the CO and dust bandpass templates to avoid the introduction of significant correlated noise. The effect is negligible for dust but not for CO in bright regions. We simulated the effect to evaluate its level. The difference between the downgraded (at N_side=128) CO simulated map and the input full resolution (at N_side=2048) CO simulated map gives the simulated bias introduced by this downgrading for each bolometer. For each frequency channel, these bias maps are converted to HPRs, multiplied by the corresponding CO bandpass coefficients computed by SRoll using data, and projected onto a frequency map of the bias for the frequency. Those frequency averaged bias maps are displayed in the table (a).

For convenience, we also provide (b) the maps of the logarithm of the ratio of the bias variance, in each N_side=128 pixel, and the variance of the noise level estimated from the End-to-End simulations. The level of the bias is well determined and specific masks adapted to each scientific analysis can be computed at the appropriate level.

The table also gives the sky fraction to be masked for thresholding the bias at 100, 10, and 1 % of the rms of the noise at N_side=2048 inside the pixel at N_side=128 referred to the rms of the noise at N_side=2048 inside the same pixel at N_side=128.

We also provide (c) the ratio of the variance bias maps to the variance of the full intensity signal.

The effects are largest in intensity and at 100 GHz. It can also be noted that, for polarization, and at all frequencies, only less than 0.04% of the sky is affected by this bias at 10%ù of the noise level. For intensity, the biais is an order of magnitude lower. If the user wants to reduce the bias below 10 % of the noise in polarization, 2% of the sky will be affected. Users can also refer to the absolute value of the bias with respect to the CO maps to build the relevant mask.

As recommended in Planck-2020-A3, Galactic science work with the HFI data in these very bright regions should then be done starting from the HPRs (see HERE) at the full resolution.

CO templates

	link to PLA	100 GHz			143 GHz	217 GHz			353 GHz
		I	Q	U	.	I	Q	U	I	Q	U
(a): frequency averaged bias maps [μK]	LVLV				.
(b): [math]\log_{10} \left(\frac{\lt \textrm{bias}\gt \textrm{map}}{\lt \textrm{noise}\gt \textrm{map}}\right)[/math]	LVLV				.
(c): [math]\log_{10} \left(\frac{\lt \textrm{bias}\gt \textrm{map}}{\lt \textrm{full intensity}\gt \textrm{map}}\right)[/math]	LVLV				.
sky fraction above 100% of (b)	.	0.0000 %	0.0000 %	0.0005 %	.	0.0000 %	0.0000 %	0.0000 %	0.0000 %	0.0000 %	0.0000 %
sky fraction above 10% of (b)	.	0.0112 %	0.0092 %	0.0346 %	.	0.0000 %	0.0061 %	0.0056 %	0.0000 %	0.0000 %	0.0005 %
sky fraction above 1% of (b)	.	0.4186 %	0.7370 %	1.4318 %	.	0.0270 %	0.1643 %	0.1094 %	0.0071 %	0.0361 %	0.0478 %