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We report the results of an extragalactic point source search using the 61 and 94 GHz (V- and W-band) temperature maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Applying a method that cancels the ``noise'' due to the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xi Chen , Edward L. Wright

We measured the cross-correlation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 7 year temperature map and the full sky data release of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) galaxy map. Using careful mapmaking and masking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 András Kovács , István Szapudi , Benjamin R. Granett , Zsolt Frei

We show that the first year results of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) constrain very efficiently the energy density in relativistic particles in the universe. We derive new bounds on additional relativistic degrees of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Patrick Crotty , Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

We report the constraints of $H_0$ obtained from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) combined with the latest baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements. We use the BAO measurements from the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-06 Xue Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang

Large-scale modes in the temperature anisotropy power spectrum C_l measured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), seem to have lower amplitudes (C_2, C_3 and C_4) than that expected in the so called concordance LCDM model. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Gaztanaga , J. Wagg , T. Multamaki , A. Montana , D. H. Hughes

We present a new estimate of foreground emission in the WMAP data, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. The new technique delivers maps of each foreground component for a variety of foreground models, error estimates of the…

We describe a sampling method to estimate the polarized CMB signal from observed maps of the sky. We use a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm to estimate the polarized CMB map, containing Q and U Stokes parameters at each pixel, and its…

The first-year WMAP data, in combination with any one of a number of other cosmic probes, show that we live in a flat \Lambda-dominated CDM universe with \Omega_m ~ 0.27 and \Omega_\Lambda ~ 0.73. In this model the late-time action of the…

Sky temperature map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the premier probes of cosmology. To minimize instrumentally induced systematic errors, CMB anisotropy experiments measure temperature differences across the sky using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-30 Hao Liu , Ti-Pei Li

The statistical expectation values of the temperature fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are assumed to be preserved under rotations of the sky. We investigate the Statistical Isotropy (SI) of the CMB anisotropy maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amir Hajian , Tarun Souradeep , Neil Cornish

We examine statistical isotropy of large scale anisotropies of the Internal Linear Combination (ILC) map, based on three year WMAP data. Our study reveals no significant deviation from statistical isotropy on large angular scales of 3-year…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Amir Hajian , Tarun Souradeep

New results on the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its polarization based on the first 3 years of data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have revised the electron scattering optical depth downward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Kyungjin Ahn , Ilian T. Iliev

[Abridged] We have produced a cleaned map of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year data using an improved foreground subtraction technique. We perform an internal linear combination (ILC) to subtract the Galactic foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chan-Gyung Park , Changbom Park , J. Richard Gott

(Abridged) A simple six-parameter LCDM model provides a successful fit to WMAP data, both when the data are analyzed alone and in combination with other cosmological data. Even so, it is appropriate to search for any hints of deviations…

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

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation data obtained by different experiments contain, besides the desired signal, a superposition of microwave sky contributions. We present a fast and robust method, using a wavelet decomposition on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 R. Fernández-Cobos , P. Vielva , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martínez-González

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

Using a set of multifrequency cross spectra computed from the 3 year WMAP sky maps, we fit for the unresolved point-source contribution. For a white-noise power spectrum, we find a Q-band amplitude of A=0.011 +/- 0.001 muK^2 sr (antenna…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. M. Huffenberger , H. K. Eriksen , F. K. Hansen

We describe our methodology for comparing the WMAP measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and other complementary data sets to theoretical models. The unprecedented quality of the WMAP data, and the tight constraints on…

Improved polarization measurements at frequencies below 70 GHz with degree-level angular resolution are crucial for advancing our understanding of the Galactic synchrotron radiation and the potential polarized anomalous microwave emission…