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SPT-3G D1: Maps of the millimeter-wave sky from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field
Authors
W. Quan, E. Camphuis, C. Daley, N. Huang, Y. Omori, F. Guidi, E. Anderes, A. J. Anderson, B. Ansarinejad, M. Archipley, L. Balkenhol, D. R. Barron, K. Benabed, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, L. E. Bleem, S. Bocquet, F. R. Bouchet, M. G. Campitiello, J. E. Carlstrom, J. Carron, C. L. Chang, P. M. Chichura, A. Chokshi, T. -L. Chou, A. Coerver, T. M. Crawford, T. de Haan, K. R. Dibert, M. A. Dobbs, M. Doohan, D. Dutcher, C. Feng, K. R. Ferguson, N. C. Ferree, K. Fichman, A. Foster, S. Galli, A. E. Gambrel, A. K. Gao, F. Ge, S. Guns, N. W. Halverson, E. Hivon, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. C. Hood, A. Hryciuk, T. Jhaveri, F. Kéruzoré, A. R. Khalife, L. Knox, K. Kornoelje, C. -L. Kuo, K. Levy, Y. Li, A. E. Lowitz, C. Lu, G. P. Lynch, T. J. Maccarone, A. S. Maniyar, E. S. Martsen, F. Menanteau, M. Millea, J. Montgomery, Y. Nakato, T. Natoli, A. Ouellette, Z. Pan, P. Paschos, K. A. Phadke, A. W. Pollak, K. Prabhu, S. Raghunathan, M. Rahimi, A. Rahlin, C. L. Reichardt, M. Rouble, J. E. Ruhl, A. C. Silva Oliveira, A. Simpson, J. A. Sobrin, A. A. Stark, J. Stephen, C. Tandoi, C. Trendafilova, J. D. Vieira, A. G. Vieregg, A. Vitrier, Y. Wan, N. Whitehorn, W. L. K. Wu, M. R. Young, J. A. Zebrowski
Abstract
Maps of the sky in millimeter wavelengths contain rich information on cosmology through anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Creating multifrequency sky maps of anisotropies in the $I$, $Q$, and $U$ Stokes parameters is one of the first steps of CMB cosmology analyses. In this work, we describe the production and validation of a set of sky maps from the South Pole Telescope's third-generation camera, SPT-3G. The maps are from data taken in frequency bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz and taken during the first two years, 2019 and 2020, of the SPT-3G Main survey, which covers $4\%$ of the sky. We applied high-pass filters to time series of individual detectors and binned the filtered time series samples into map pixels. After that, we calibrated and cleaned the maps to reduce known systematic errors. In addition, we searched for other systematic errors through null tests and mitigated a significant systematic error detected therein. The white noise levels of the full-depth maps of the $I$ Stokes parameter are $5.4$, $4.4$, and $16.2$ $\mathrm{μK}$-$\mathrm{arcmin}$ in the 95, 150, and 220 GHz bands, respectively, and $8.4$, $6.6$, and $25.8$ $\mathrm{μK}$-$\mathrm{arcmin}$ for $Q/U$. These maps are the deepest to date used for measurements of mid-to-high-$\ell$ primary temperature and $E$-mode polarization CMB anisotropies, and reconstructions of the CMB gravitational lensing potential. We make these maps and supporting data products publicly accessible.
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