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Three‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Polarization Analysis

  • Authors: L. Page, G. Hinshaw, E. Komatsu, M. R. Nolta, D. N. Spergel, C. L. Bennett, C. Barnes, R. Bean, O. Doré, J. Dunkley, M. Halpern, R. S. Hill, N. Jarosik, A. Kogut, M. Limon, S. S. Meyer, N. Odegard, H. V. Peiris, G. S. Tucker, L. Verde, J. L. Weiland, E. Wollack, and E. L. Wright

Page et al. 2007 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 170 335.

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Caption: Fig. 3.

P and γ maps for the K, Ka, and Q bands in Galactic coordinates. See Fig 4 of Bennett et al. (2003b) for features and coordinates. There is only one polarization map for the K and Ka bands. For the Q band, there are two maps that have been co‐added. The maps are smoothed to 2°. The polarization vectors are plotted whenever a r4 HEALPix pixel (see § 4.2, roughly ﹩4^{\circ }\times 4^{\circ }﹩) and three of its neighbors have a signal‐to‐noise ratio (P/N) greater than unity. The length of the arrow is logarithmically dependent on the magnitude of P. Note that P is positive. Maps of the noise bias have been subtracted in these images.

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