LowellBB Project List

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Summary of low-ell BB work so far and sketch of plans forward (Oct 2019 UCSD meeting): [slides]

Active projects

• Bayesian r-analysis: Millea, Knox, others
• MAP phi estimate extension to curved-sky: Carron
• Foreground clean map for phi reconstruction: Umiltà
• Cross-spectra parametric r-pipeline: Buza, Racine, Bischoff, Pryke, Willmert
• ILC pipeline: Flauger
• SO pipeline: Errard

Inputs to pre-CD1 decisions

Pre-CD1 decision spreadsheet

• Justification for 20 GHz channel on LAT: Bischoff
• Justification for 85/95 and 145/155 split bands: Bischoff
• Requirement for angular resolution and sensitivity of delensing LAT: Wu

Threads that can use more attention

• Impacts of Galactic foregrounds on delensing
• Instrumental systematics impacts on delensing
• Instrumental systematics impacts on degree-scale measurements
• Field selection for the deep survey
• Forecast comparison between S4 and SO sims
• Development of additional foreground models/sims, and development of an approach to managing our uncertainty about foreground properties and how this impacts flowdown to design.
• Request from McMahon to Science Council for tool that can quickly calculate science forecast from noise specification, i.e. something like Victor's Fisher forecast.

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