THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: CALIBRATION WITH THE <i>WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE</i> USING CROSS-CORRELATIONS
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2011
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We present a new calibration method based on cross-correlations with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and apply it to data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT's observing strategy and map-making procedure allows an unbiased reconstruction of the modes in the maps over a wide range of multipoles. By directly matching the ACT maps to WMAP observations in the multipole range of 400 < l < 1000, we determine the absolute calibration with an uncertainty of 2% in temperature. The precise measurement of the calibration error directly impacts the uncertainties in the cosmological parameters estimated from the ACT power spectra. We also present a combined map based on ACT and WMAP data that has a high signal-to-noise ratio over a wide range of multipoles.
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cosmic background radiation, cosmology: observations, methods: data analysis, methods: statistical