Mean radial profiles of T, Q_r, and U_r in micro-kelvin obtained for Commander (red), NILC (orange), SEVEM (green), and SMICA (blue) at N_side = 1024. The top panel in each plot shows the radial profile compared to the simulation average (grey line), while the lower panel shows the difference of the radial profile and simulation average on smaller scales. Results based on stacks around temperature maxima and minima are shown in the upper and lower rows, respectively. The left three columns present results for peaks selected above the null threshold, while the right three columns show the equivalent results for peak amplitudes above (maxima) or below (minima) 3 times the dispersion of the temperature map. The black dots (connected by dashed lines) show the mean value from simulations and the shaded regions correspond to the ±1σ (68%) and ±2σ (95%) error bars estimated from SEVEM simulations. Note that the “Diff” curves for each component-separation method are computed using the corresponding set of ensemble averages, although only the ensemble average from SEVEM is shown here.