24–26 nov. 2026
Institut Astrophysique de Paris
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

The Simons Observatory: A framework for efficient map-based simulations to mitigate instrumental systematics for CMB surveys

24 nov. 2026, 16:50
20m
Institut Astrophysique de Paris

Institut Astrophysique de Paris

98 bis boulevard Arago 75014 Paris

Orateur

Magdy Morshed (INFN Ferrara)

Description

The current and future observations of the CMB are expected to reach unprecedented sensitivity to place stringent constraints on both cosmological parameters and fundamental physics. The ground-based Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope started observations last year, and will provide the most sensitive small-scale CMB measurements. A tight control over instrumental systematics is critical, through the assessment of their impact as well as their mitigation.
In this talk, we propose a new generalized framework to efficiently simulate systematics at the map level, along with the Python package smarties optimized to handle high resolution simulations. As a first application, we demonstrate that our results are in agreement with significantly more numerically expensive end-to-end simulations for a set of beam-related systematics. The ability to efficiently produce large ensembles of such simulations will allow for more robust cosmological parameter estimation from the power spectra of the CMB and gravitational lensing potential.

Auteur

Magdy Morshed (INFN Ferrara)

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