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We present results from the QMAP balloon experiment, which maps the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and probes its angular power spectrum on degree scales. In two separate flights, data were taken in six channels at two frequency bands…

We develop a new Bayesian method for estimating white noise levels in CMB sky maps, and apply this algorithm to the 5-year WMAP data. We assume that the amplitude of the noise RMS is scaled by a constant value, alpha, relative to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 N. E. Groeneboom , H. K. Eriksen , K. Gorski , G. Huey , J. Jewell , B. Wandelt

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

Recent CMB observations have resulted in very precise observational data. A robust and reliable CMB reconstruction technique can lead to efficient estimation of the cosmological parameters. We demonstrate the performance of our methodology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Albin Joseph , Ujjal Purkayastha , Rajib Saha

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

One of the main obstacles for extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from mm/submm observations is the pollution from the main Galactic components: synchrotron, free-free and thermal dust emission. The feasibility of using simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

We reconstruct shear maps and angular power spectra from simulated weakly lensed total intensity (TT) and polarised (EB) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, obtained using Born approximated ray-tracing through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-04 Claudia Antolini , Yabebal Fantaye , Matteo Martinelli , Carmelita Carbone , Carlo Baccigalupi

We present full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission, derived from the third set of Planck frequency maps. These products have significantly lower contamination from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Planck Collaboration , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , B. Casaponsa , A. Challinor , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , G. Helou , D. Herranz , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , A. Karakci , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , T. S. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , A. Marcos-Caballero , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , P. Natoli , F. Oppizzi , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , M. Peel , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , D. S. Seljebotn , C. Sirignano , L. D. Spencer , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , H. Thommesen , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Quadratic methods with heuristic weighting (e.g. pseudo-C_l or correlation function methods) represent an efficient way to estimate power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and their polarization. We construct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anthony Challinor , Gayoung Chon

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

We have derived whole-sky CMB polarization maps from the WMAP 5 year polarization data, using the Harmonic Internal Linear Combination (HILC) method. Our HILC method incorporates spatial variability of linear weights in a natural way and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-06 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detecting the elusive signal from primordial tensor fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Susanna Azzoni , David Alonso , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Josquin Errard , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff

We present a CMB large-scale polarization dataset obtained by combining WMAP Ka, Q and V with Planck 70 GHz maps. We employ the legacy frequency maps released by the WMAP and Planck collaborations and perform our own Galactic foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 U. Natale , L. Pagano , M. Lattanzi , M. Migliaccio , L. P. Colombo , A. Gruppuso , P. Natoli , G. Polenta

The angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy observed by WMAP has an anomalous dip at l~20 and bump at l~40. One explanation for this structure is the presence of features in the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-19 Michael J. Mortonson , Cora Dvorkin , Hiranya V. Peiris , Wayne Hu

We present 3D models of the Galactic magnetic field including regular and turbulent components, and of the distribution of matter in the Galaxy including relativistic electrons and dust grains. By integrating along the line of sight, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-26 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , F. X. Désert

One of the fundamental problems in extracting the cosmic microwave background signal (CMB) from millimeter/submillimeter observations is the pollution by emission from the Milky Way: synchrotron, free-free, and thermal dust emission. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. U. Nørgaard - Nielsen

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

Recovering the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) is essential for shedding light on the exponential expansion of the very early Universe, known as cosmic inflation. Achieving this goal requires not only improved instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , G. Puglisi , C. Baccigalupi , S. R. Cabo , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , C. González-Gutiérrez , F. J. de Cos