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The presence of astrophysical emissions between the last scattering surface and our vantage point requires us to apply a foreground mask on CMB sky map, leading to large cut around the Galactic equator and numerous holes. Since many CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-17 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Nazzareno Mandolesi

The study of cosmic birefringence through Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments is a key research area in cosmology and particle physics, providing a critical test for Lorentz and CPT symmetries. This paper focuses on an upcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yiwei Zhong , Hongbo Cai , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Mingzhe Li , Wenjuan Fang

We perform a detailed comparison of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy with the predictions of quintessence cosmological models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert R. Caldwell , Michael Doran

We are presenting an Internal Linear Combination (ILC) CMB map, in which the foreground is reduced through harmonic variance minimization. We have derived our method by converting a general form of pixel-space approach into spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

We report an improved technique for diffuse foreground minimization from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps using a new multi-phase iterative internal-linear-combination (ILC) approach in harmonic space. The new procedure consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Vipin Sudevan , Pavan K. Aluri , Sarvesh Kumar Yadav , Rajib Saha , Tarun Souradeep

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) encodes information on the origin and evolution of the universe, buried in a fractional anisotropy of one part in 100,000 on angular scales from arcminutes to tens of degrees. We await the coming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Richard Bond , Robert G. Crittenden , Andrew H. Jaffe , Lloyd Knox

The COBE satellite has provided the only comprehensive multi-frequency full-sky observations of the microwave sky available today. Assessment of the observations requires a detailed likelihood analysis to extract the maximum amount of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Gorski

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

We have simulated full-sky maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy expected from Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models at 0.5 and 1.0 degree angular resolution. Statistical properties of the maps are presented as a function of sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Hinshaw , C. L. Bennett , A. Kogut

We present new measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the final season of the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP). The data set was obtained in winter 2004-2005 with the 7 m antenna in Crawford…

Detection of magnetic-type ($B$-type) polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation plays a crucial role in probing the relic gravitational wave (RGW) background. In this paper, we propose a new method to deconstruct a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Wen Zhao , Deepak Baskaran

Recently a symmetry-based method to test for statistical isotropy of the cosmic microwave background was developed. We apply the method to template-cleaned 3-year and 5-year WMAP-$DA$ maps. We examine a wide range of angular multipoles from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Pramoda Kumar Samal , Rajib Saha , Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

The map-making step of Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis involves linear inversion problems which cannot be performed by a brute force approach for the large timelines of today. We present in this article optimal vector-only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xavier Dupac , Martin Giard

In this article we present a formalism to incorporate the partial-sky maps to the Gibbs ILC algorithm to estimate the joint posterior density of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and the theoretical CMB angular power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Vipin Sudevan , Ujjal Purkayastha , Rajib Saha

We estimate the level of confusion to Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy measurements caused by extragalactic infrared sources. CMB anisotropy observations at high resolution and high frequencies are especially sensitive to this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Gawiser , George F. Smoot

We have developed a fast, accurate and generally applicable method for inferring the power spectrum and its uncertainties from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of inhomogeneous and correlated noise. For maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. Doré , L. Knox , A. Peel

Maps of the sky in millimeter wavelengths contain rich information on cosmology through anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Creating multifrequency sky maps of anisotropies in the $I$, $Q$, and $U$ Stokes parameters is…

Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. However, the weak B-mode signal is overshadowed by several Galactic polarized emissions, such as thermal dust emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia

To study the early Universe, it is essential to estimate cosmological parameters with high accuracy, which depends on the optimal reconstruction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps and the measurement of their power spectrum. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Belén Costanza , Claudia G. Scóccola , Matías Zaldarriaga