Re: [Bicep2-list] your 15 Jan monopole sidelobe sim posting

Hi John, This post was discussed on the telecon. I commented that a uniform effect was more relevant than the random pattern - which as you say will average down and if strong enough cause jackknife failure. However I am skeptical about making the effect fully differential and then adjusting to max level which would evade existing beam map measurements. That seems pretty artificial to me. Much more likely is that there would be such a sidelobe whose differential component was many times smaller than its absolute strength. Generally I'd like to encourage more thinking about how our troubles could result from non beam based effects. We can go ahead dreaming up very specific jackknife evading sidelobe models which would also just evade existing beam measurements. But supposing we find such a model - how likely is it to be reality? Clem -- ********************************************************************** Clem Pryke - Associate Professor - Physics University of Minnesota, Room 313 Tate, 116 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN, 55455 Tel: 612-624-7578 Fax: 612-624-4578 email: pryke(a)physics.umn.edu **********************************************************************