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CMB anisotropy experiments seeking to make maps with more pixels than the 6144 pixels used by the COBE DMR need to address the practical issues of the computer time and storage required to make maps. A simple, repetitive scan pattern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward L. Wright

Large patterns could exist on the microwave sky as a result of various non-standard possibilities for the large-scale Universe -- rotation or shear, non-trivial topology, and single topological defects are specific examples. All-sky (or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Emory F. Bunn , Douglas Scott

Mitigation of the impact of foreground contributions to measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization is a crucial step in modern CMB data analysis and is of particular importance for a detection of large-scale CMB $B$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Clément Leloup , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

A search for matched circle pairs of similar temperature fluctuations in the final WMAP 9yr data is carried out. Such a signature is expected if the space of the Universe is multiply connected. We investigate the relation between the pixel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-22 Ralf Aurich , Sven Lustig

A great deal of experimental effort is currently being devoted to the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky in temperature and polarisation. Satellites, balloon-borne, and ground-based experiments scrutinize the…

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can help probe cosmic inflation (via primordial $B$ modes) and test parity-violating physics (via cosmic birefringence), but realizing the potential of these opportunities requires…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Marta Monelli

Simulated maps of the microwave background (CMB) radiation are generally created using one of two methods: all-sky simulations use the spherical harmonic transform, while maps covering small areas approximate the sky as flat, allowing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Mariona Giner Mascarell , Emory F. Bunn

Accurate, low-latency channel modeling is essential for real-time wireless network simulation and digital-twin applications. Traditional modeling methods like ray tracing are however computationally demanding and unsuited to model dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ali Saeizadeh , Miead Tehrani-Moayyed , Davide Villa , J. Gordon Beattie , Pedram Johari , Stefano Basagni , Tommaso Melodia

Polarized Galactic foregrounds are one of the primary sources of systematic error in measurements of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Experiments are becoming increasingly sensitive to complexities in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-13 Brandon S. Hensley , Philip Bull

Map-making is an important step for the data analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. It consists of converting the data, which are typically a long, complex and noisy collection of measurements, into a map, which is an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 F. Guidi , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , A. E. Pelaez-Santos , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Ashdown , R. B. Barreiro , J. D. Bilbao-Ahedo , S. E. Harper , R. A. Watson

Analysis and denoising of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps are performed using wavelet multiresolution techniques. The method is tested on $12^{\circ}.8\times 12^{\circ}.8$ maps with resolution resembling the experimental one expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Sanz , F. Argueso , L. Cayon , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , R. B. Barreiro , L. Toffolatti

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Stephen M. Feeney , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde , Josquin Errard

We present a comprehensive neural architecture, the PUREPath, which leverages a nested Probabilistic multi-modal U- Net framework, augmented by the inclusion of probabilistic ResNet blocks in the Expanding Pathway of the decoders, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

We describe a map-making method which we have developed for the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) experiment, but which should have general application to data from other submillimeter arrays. Our method uses a…

We present a new map-making method for CMB measurements. The method is based on the destriping technique, but it also utilizes information about the noise spectrum. The low-frequency component of the instrument noise stream is modelled as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Keihanen , H. Kurki-Suonio , T. Poutanen

We present in this article two different ways to make CMB maps in practice, from large timelines. One is to make a simple destriping, fitting the data and using the scan intercepts to remove the low frequency noise (stripes). The second,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xavier Dupac , Martin Giard

We apply a messenger field method to solve the linear minimum-variance mapmaking equation in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations. In simulations, the method produces sky maps that converge significantly faster than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Kevin M. Huffenberger , Sigurd K. Næss

The largest uncollapsed inhomogeneity in the observable Universe is statistically represented in the quadrupole signal of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky maps as observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-09 Boudewijn F. Roukema

Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation experiments are targeting the polarized $B$-mode signal. The small amplitude of this signal makes a successful measurement challenging for current technologies. Therefore, very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Tommaso Ghigna , Tomotake Matsumura , Guillaume Patanchon , Hirokazu Ishino , Masashi Hazumi

We evaluate the expected level of foreground contamination to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarised radiation, focusing on the diffuse emission from our own Galaxy. In particular, we perform a first attempt to simulate an all sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Carlo Baccigalupi