Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER

Abstract

Using data from the first flight of SPIDER and from Planck HFI, we probe the properties of polarized emission from interstellar dust in the SPIDER observing region. Component separation algorithms operating in both the spatial and harmonic domains are applied to probe their consistency and to quantify modeling errors associated with their assumptions. Analyses of diffuse Galactic dust emission spanning the full SPIDER region demonstrate i) a spectral energy distribution that is broadly consistent with a modified-blackbody (MBB) model with a spectral index of ${\beta }_{\mathrm{d}}=1.45\pm 0.05$ $(1.47\pm 0.06)$ for $E$ ($B$)-mode polarization, slightly lower than that reported by Planck for the full sky; ii) an angular power spectrum broadly consistent with a power law; and iii) no significant detection of line-of-sight polarization decorrelation. Tests of several modeling uncertainties find only a modest impact (~10% in ${\sigma }_r$) on SPIDER's sensitivity to the cosmological tensor-to-scalar ratio. The size of the SPIDER region further allows for a statistically meaningful analysis of the variation in foreground properties within it. Assuming a fixed dust temperature $T_{\mathrm{d}}=19.6$ K, an analysis of two independent sub-regions of that field results in inferred values of ${\beta }_{\mathrm{d}}=1.52\pm 0.06$ and ${\beta }_{\mathrm{d}}=1.09\pm 0.09$, which are inconsistent at the $3.9\sigma$ level. Furthermore, a joint analysis of SPIDER and Planck 217 and 353 GHz data within one sub-region is inconsistent with a simple MBB at more than $3\sigma$, assuming a common morphology of polarized dust emission over the full range of frequencies. This evidence of variation may inform the component-separation approaches of future CMB polarization experiments.

21 pages, 15 figures; updated to match published version

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