Estimates of delensing efficiency

Delensing with a dedicated telescope at the pole - A_L=0.13

This was the assumption made for the CDT report. At the time of writing no new reference configuration is available. The forecast for the delensing efficiency for the CDT configuration was A_L=0.13.

Delensing with the large area telescopes from Chile

Here I will rely on the recent configuration denoted 'Survey Performance Expectation 01' in the posting Survey Performance Expectations. The post does not contain all required information (e.g. l_knee and the exponent for the 1/f contribution). Based on the corresponding pdf, I assume that for polarization l_knee=800 and an exponent of -1.5. This leads to the following polarization noise curves

Here the colors go from blue to red with increasing frequency. Assuming a foreground model that contains a 2-component dust model and synchrotron, including dust-synchrotron correlations, I determine the weights for an internal linear combination map. The weights are

and the polarization noise power in the ILC map is

The model does not incorporate spatial variation of spectral parameters so that this is highly optimistic and will underestimate the noise. The size of this effect should be studied.

A Fisher forecast for iterative delensing relying on this noise curve predicts A_L=0.XX.

Delensing with the large area telescopes from Chile and a dedicated LAT for delensing

Here I will assume an additional telescope dedicated to delensing with the same characteristics as the LATs described in 'Survey Performance Expectation 01' and observing the Chile mask shown in the posting Sky masks for simulations II. The coadded frequency maps have the following polarization noise curves

Assuming the same foreground model as above, the weights are

and the polarization noise power in the resulting ILC map is

A Fisher forecast for iterative delensing relying on this noise curve predicts A_L=0.XX.