3 years ago

A Clustered Extragalactic Foreground Model for the EoR.

Steven Murray, Christopher Jordan, Cathryn Trott

We review an improved statistical model of extra-galactic point-source foregrounds first introduced in [Murray 2017], in the context of the Epoch of Reionization. This model extends the instrumentally-convolved foreground covariance used in inverse-covariance foreground mitigation schemes, by considering the cosmological clustering of the sources. In this short work, we show that over scales of $k \sim (0.6, 40.) h {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$, ignoring source clustering is a valid approximation. This is in contrast to [Murray 2017], who found a possibility of false detection if the clustering was ignored. The dominant cause for this change is the introduction of a Galactic synchrotron component which shadows the clustering of sources.

Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05570

DOI: arXiv:1801.05570v1

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