Recent developments in astrophysical and cosmological exploitation of microwave surveys
Abstract
In this article we focus on the astrophysical results and the related cosmological implications derived from recent microwave surveys, with emphasis to those coming from the Planck mission. We critically discuss the impact of systematics effects and the role of methods to separate the cosmic microwave background signal from the astrophysical emissions and each different astrophysical component from the others. We then review of the state of the art in diffuse emissions, extragalactic sources, cosmic infrared back- ground, and galaxy clusters, addressing the information they provide to our global view of the cosmic structure evolution and for some crucial physical parameters, as the neutrino mass. Finally, we present three different kinds of scientific perspectives for fundamental physics and cosmology offered by the analysis of on-going and future cosmic microwave background projects at different angular scales dedicated to anisotropies in total intensity and polarization and to absolute temperature.
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@article{arxiv.1302.3474,
title = {Recent developments in astrophysical and cosmological exploitation of microwave surveys},
author = {Carlo Burigana and Rodney D. Davies and Paolo De Bernardis and Jacques Delabrouille and Francesco De Paolis and Marian Douspis and Rishi Khatri and Guo Chin Liu and Michele Maris and Silvia Masi and Aniello Mennella and Paolo Natoli and Hans Ulrik Norgaard-Nielsen and Etienne Pointecouteau and Yoel Rephaeli and Luigi Toffolatti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3474},
year = {2015}
}
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38 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publications on IJMPD. Based on talks presented at the Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stockholm, July 2012 (Cosmic Background (CB) sessions). It will appear also on corresponding proceedings edited by Kjell Rosquist, Robert T. Jantzen, Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2013