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Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is critical to the understanding of the early universe and precise estimation of cosmological constants. Due to the contamination of thermal dust noise in the galaxy, the CMB map that is an image…

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This white paper addresses key challenges for the design of next-decade Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, and for assessing their capability to extract cosmological information from CMB polarization. We focus here on the…

Estimating the cosmological microwave background is of utmost importance for cosmology. However, its estimation from full-sky surveys such as WMAP or more recently Planck is challenging: CMB maps are generally estimated via the application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , J. Fadili

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide increasingly accurate information about the structure of the Universe at the recombination epoch. Most of this information is encoded in the angular power spectrum of the CMB.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 G. Faÿ , F. Guilloux , M. Betoule , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Delabrouille , M. Le Jeune

We present ABCMB, a differentiable Einstein-Boltzmann solver for the cosmic microwave background (CMB). ABCMB is a complete code capturing important effects to linear order in $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ cosmology. It computes the CMB power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Zilu Zhou , Cara Giovanetti , Hongwan Liu

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been a cornerstone in many cosmology experiments and studies since it was discovered back in 1964. Traditional computational models like CAMB that are used for generating CMB temperature anisotropy maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-02 Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy , Rahul Nigam

We introduce a new CMB temperature likelihood approximation called the Gaussianized Blackwell-Rao (GBR) estimator. This estimator is derived by transforming the observed marginal power spectrum distributions obtained by the CMB Gibbs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ø. Rudjord , N. E. Groeneboom , H. K. Eriksen , Greg Huey , K. M. Górski , J. B. Jewell

We present a new approach for statistical inference on noise properties of CMB anisotropy data. We consider a Maximum Likelihood parametric estimator to recover the full dependence structure of the noise process. We also consider a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 P. Natoli , D. Marinucci , P. Cabella , G. de Gasperis , N. Vittorio

Understanding how cosmological parameters influence the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra is a central component of modern cosmology education, but interactive exploration is often limited by computational cost or technical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Andreas Nygaard , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

We present a new, semi-analytic framework for estimating the level of residuals present in CMB maps derived from multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and forecasting their impact on cosmological parameters. The data are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Radek Stompor , Josquin Errard , Davide Poletti

An improved estimator for the amplitude fnl of local-type non-Gaussianity from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is discussed. The standard estimator is constructed to be optimal in the zero-signal (i.e., Gaussian) limit.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tristan L. Smith , Daniel Grin , Marc Kamionkowski

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

We describe an efficient and exact method that enables global Bayesian analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. The method reveals the joint posterior density (or likelihood for flat priors) of the power spectrum $C_\ell$ and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Benjamin D. Wandelt , David L. Larson , Arun Lakshminarayanan

In this work, we formalize a new technique to investigate joint posterior density of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and its theoretical angular power spectrum given the observed data, using the global internal-linear-combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

We revisit a recently introduced power spectrum estimation technique based on Gibbs sampling, with the goal of applying it to the high-resolution WMAP data. In order to facilitate this analysis, a number of sophistications have to be…

We present a method designed to estimate the noise power spectrum in the time domain for CMB experiments. The noise power spectrum is extracted from the time ordered data avoiding the contamination coming from sky signal and accounting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexandre Amblard , Jean-Christophe Hamilton

This work describes Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis algorithms and their implementations, developed to produce a pixelized map of the sky and a corresponding pixel-pixel noise correlation matrix from time ordered data for a…

The search for the B-mode polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the new frontier of observational Cosmology. A B-mode detection would give an ultimate confirmation to the existence of a primordial Gravitational Wave (GW)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Alessandro Buzzelli , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi , Nicola Vittorio

We use the emulation framework CosmoPower to construct and publicly release neural network emulators of cosmological observables, including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra, matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-06 Boris Bolliet , Alessio Spurio Mancini , J. Colin Hill , Mathew Madhavacheril , Hidde T. Jense , Erminia Calabrese , Jo Dunkley

Although the broad outlines of the appropriate pipeline for cosmological likelihood analysis with CMB data has been known for several years, only recently have we had to contend with the full, large-scale, computationally challenging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew H. Jaffe , J. R. Bond , P. G. Ferreira , L. E. Knox