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WMAP 9-year CMB estimation using sparsity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

Recovering the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from WMAP data requires galactic foreground emissions to be accurately separated out. Most component separation techniques rely on second order statistics such as Internal Linear Combination (ILC) techniques. In this paper, we present a new WMAP 9-year CMB map, with 15 arcmin resolution, which is reconstructed using a recently introduced sparse component separation technique, coined Local Generalized Morphological Component Analysis (LGMCA). LGMCA emphasizes on the sparsity of the components to be retrieved in the wavelet domain. We show that although derived from a radically different separation criterion ({i.e. sparsity), the LGMCA-WMAP 9 map and its power spectrum are fully consistent with their more recent estimates from WMAP 9.

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@article{arxiv.1303.4881,
  title  = {WMAP 9-year CMB estimation using sparsity},
  author = {J. Bobin and F. Sureau and P. Paykari and A. Rassat and S. Basak and J. -L. Starck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4881},
  year   = {2015}
}

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