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Over the last decade, measurements of the CMB anisotropy has spearheaded the remarkable transition of cosmology into a precision science. However, addressing the systematic effects in the increasingly sensitive, high resolution, `full' sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-31 Sanjit Mitra , Anand S. Sengupta , Subharthi Ray , Rajib Saha , Tarun Souradeep

Using a Gibbs sampling algorithm for joint CMB estimation and component separation, we compute the large-scale CMB and foreground posteriors of the 3-yr WMAP temperature data. Our parametric data model includes the cosmological CMB signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 H. K. Eriksen , C. Dickinson , J. B. Jewell , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski , C. R. Lawrence

We discuss the derivation of the analytic properties of the cross-power spectrum estimator from multi-detector CMB anisotropy maps. The method is computationally convenient and it provides unbiased estimates under very broad assumptions. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Polenta , D. Marinucci , A. Balbi , P. de Bernardis , E. Hivon , S. Masi , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

We estimate Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation power spectra, and temperature-polarisation cross-spectra, from the 9-year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Foreground cleaning is implemented using minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Soumen Basak , Jacques Delabrouille

We test anisotropic dark energy models with the 7-year WMAP temperature observations data. In the presence of imperfect sources, due to large-scale gradients or anisotropies in the dark energy field, the CMB sky will be distorted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Magnus J. Axelsson , Frode K. Hansen , Tomi Koivisto , David F. Mota

The spectral variation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by WMAP was tested using foreground reduced WMAP5 data, by producing subtraction maps at the 1$^\circ$ angular resolution between the two cosmological bands of V…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bi-Zhu Jiang , Richard Lieu , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Bart Wakker

We apply the Gabor transform methodology proposed in (Hansen et al. 2002, 2003) to the WMAP data in order to test the statistical properties of the CMB fluctuation field and specifically to evaluate the fundamental assumption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 F. K. Hansen , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski

We report the most complete analysis to date of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the 1998 flight of BOOMERANG. We use two quite different methods to determine the angular power spectrum of the CMB in 20…

We report improved measurements of temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation made with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). In this paper, we use a new analysis technique and include…

We present Xspect, a method to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies including analytical error bars developed for the Archeops experiment. Cross-power spectra are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Tristram , J. F. Macias-Perez , C. Renault , D. Santos

The natural outcome of theoretical calculations of microwave background anisotropy is the angular power spectrum ${\cal C}_\ell$ as a function of multipole number $\ell$. Experimental ${\cal C}_\ell$'s are needed for direct comparison.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 J. Richard Bond

A maximum-likelihood method is presented for estimating the power spectrum of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from interferometer observations. The method calculates flat band-power estimates in separate bins in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. P. Hobson , Klaus Maisinger

We measure the skewness power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies optimized for a detection of the secondary bispectrum generated by the correlation of the CMB lensing potential with integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Erminia Calabrese , Joseph Smidt , Alexandre Amblard , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri , Paolo Serra , Alan Heavens , Dipak Munshi

Estimation of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on a small patch of sky is usually plagued by serious spectral leakage, specially when the map has a hard edge. Even on a full sky map, point source masks can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudeep Das , Amir Hajian , David N. Spergel

We have observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in three regions of sky using the Very Small Array (VSA) in an extended configuration with antennas of beamwidth 2 degrees at 34 GHz. Combined with data from previous VSA observations…

Estimation of the angular power spectrum is one of the important steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis. Here, we present a nonparametric estimate of the temperature angular power spectrum for the Planck 2013 CMB data. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Amir Aghamousa , Arman Shafieloo , Mihir Arjunwadkar , Tarun Souradeep

Using a nonparametric function estimation methodology, we present a comparative analysis of the WMAP 1-, 3-, 5-, and 7-year data releases for the CMB angular power spectrum with respect to the following key questions: (a) How well is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-10 Amir Aghamousa , Mihir Arjunwadkar , Tarun Souradeep

We present a simple, yet accurate approximation for calculating the cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectrum in adiabatic models. It consists of solving for the evolution of a two-fluid model until the epoch of recombination…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Uros Seljak

Much attention has been given to the problem of estimating cosmological parameters from the $C_l$ measured by future experiments. Many of the approaches which are being used either invoke poorly controlled approximations or are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Eric Hivon , Krzysztof M. Gorski

We present a new method for time-efficient and accurate extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps based on properties of peaks and troughs of the Gaussian CMB sky. We construct a statistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Kashlinsky , C. Hernández--Monteagudo , F. Atrio--Barandela