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Destriping methods for constructing maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies have been investigated extensively in the literature. However, their error properties have been studied in less detail. Here we present an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Efstathiou

Scaling properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation are studied using satellite (COBE-DMR maps), balloon-borne and ground-based (combined QMASK map) data. Quantitative consistency is found between the multiscaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bershadskii

In order to extract cosmological information from observations of the millimeter and submillimeter sky, foreground components must first be removed to produce an estimate of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We developed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Matthew A. Petroff , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Janet L. Weiland

Spectral distortion anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a new probe of the early Universe that can be accessed using traditional CMB imaging techniques. It is possible to compute the creation and evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Jens Chluba , Sara Evangelista , Tom Daman , Geoff Vasil

We investigate large-angle scale temperature anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data and model the large-angle anomalies as the effect of the CMB quadrupole anisotropies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Li-Ping He , Quan Guo

Anisotropies in distortions to the frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be created through spatially varying heating processes in the early Universe. For instance, the dissipation of small-scale acoustic modes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jens Chluba , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Mustafa A. Amin , Marc Kamionkowski

We use Nambu-Goto numerical simulations to compute the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies induced at arcminute angular scales by a network of cosmic strings in a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) expanding…

We present improved results on the measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies using the data from the last Archeops flight. This refined analysis is obtained by using the 6…

In Luparello et al. 2023, a new and hitherto unknown CMB foreground was detected. A systematic decrease in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperatures around nearby large spiral galaxies points to an unknown interaction with CMB photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Frode K. Hansen , Ezequiel F. Boero , Heliana E. Luparello , Diego Garcia Lambas

The largest temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the dipole. The simplest interpretation of the dipole is that it is due to our motion with respect to the rest frame of the CMB. As well as creating the $\ell$=1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Raelyn M. Sullivan , Douglas Scott

We study statistical anisotropies generated in the observed two-point function of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations if the primordial statistics are non-Gaussian. Focusing on the dipole modulations of the anisotropies, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Saroj Adhikari , Anne-Sylvie Deutsch , Sarah Shandera

The first observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from NASA's \emph{Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe} (WMAP) led to finding `alignment' anomalies not expected from fluctuations in the isotropic cosmological model. We study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Sanjeet Kumar Patel , Pavan Kumar Aluri , John P. Ralston

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have revealed a dipolar asymmetry in power at the largest scales, in apparent contradiction with the statistical isotropy of standard cosmological models. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 D. Contreras , J. Hutchinson , A. Moss , D. Scott , J. P. Zibin

We studied the WMAP temperature anisotropy data using two different methods. The derived signal gradient maps show regions with low mean gradients in structures near the ecliptic poles and higher gradient values in the wide ecliptic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. T. Chyzy , B. Novosyadlyj , M. Ostrowski

We present a careful frequentist analysis of one- and two-point statistics of the hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data obtained by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Our main result is the detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David L. Larson , Benjamin D. Wandelt

All the analyses of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature maps up--to--date show that CMB anisotropies follow a Gaussian distribution. On the other hand, astrophysical foregrounds which hamper the detection of the CMB angular power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Argüeso , J. González-Nuevo , L. Toffolatti

We present a formalism for analyzing interferometric observations of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy and polarization data. The formalism is based upon the ell-space expansion of the angular power spectrum favoured in recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Martin White , John E. Carlstrom , Mark Dragovan , William L. Holzapfel

We introduce a simple yet powerful {\it analytic} method which obtains the structure of cosmic microwave background anisotropies to better than 5-10\% in temperature fluctuations on {\it all} scales. It is applicable to {\it any} model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Wayne Hu , Naoshi Sugiyama

The WMAP satellite has completed 3 years of observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The 3-year data products include several sets of full sky maps of the Stokes I, Q and U parameters in 5 frequency bands, spanning 23 to…