Telecon Notes March 18, 2021

Attendance: Ragnhild, Mathieu, Shaul, Clem
Regrets:

Agenda:

• Updates

Notes: Shaul

• Ragnhild shows work done with Unni's simulations (.pdf), and model 90.91
  • The r likelihood (pgs. 6,7) shows a detection of r, for r=0. Why? And why is the likelihood so narrow?
  • MR: can you show the foreground residuals? Are you fixing A_{lens} or are you fitting for A_{lens}?
  • For r=0.003, reconstruction of r works well.
  • Chi^2 (not reduced) is shown in page 11.
  • Question: should we proceed with Unni's simulations?
• Clem describes his iterations with HK (and there's more follow up in e-mail after the telecon)
  • Decision: he will go to l_max = 4*nside
• Discussion about PICO's noise model. Currently it is effectively white. Is that realistic? Shaul will check.