I Will the upcoming experiment PICO measure kSZ temperature anisotropy?

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I know for sure PICO will be measuring polarization anisotropies with high fidelity. In addition, the PICO science paper shows that it will make full-sky Compton-y maps but the plots are mostly limited to l=1000. Will PICO be able to measure kSZ temperature anisotropy at l=3000?
 
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Based upon the described angular resolution of the satellite, absolutely. For E-mode anisotropies. Indeed, if you look at Fig 2.1, you see they've plotted the E-mode anisotropies up to around 4000. But those aren't the primary focus, as the low-multipole B modes are the most critical for new cosmology. What's important for measuring those are:
1) Lots of frequency bands (this requires a satellite)
2) Good control of systematic errors for polarization

The high multipoles are swamped by noise for the B-mode polarization signal, as the B-mode polarization signal is much smaller than the E-mode signal. One of the limiting factors here is that for B-mode polarization, lensing of large scale structure mixes E and B modes, which creates a noise-like signal (this is the "lensing residual"). The instrument noise will still be below this threshold, but we just don't get useful information out of the B-mode spectrum above a hundred or so.
 
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