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Although it has previously been recognized that the CMB polarization measurement on a sky ring is able to separate the B and E-mode patterns, we show that the rotational symmetry of the CMB polarization measurement is indeed unique, in that…

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The B-mode polarisation power spectrum in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is about four orders of magnitude fainter than the CMB temperature power spectrum. Any instrumental imperfections that couple temperature fluctuations to B-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Christopher G. R. Wallis , Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye , Jacques Delabrouille

The primary source of systematic uncertainty in the quest for the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) introduced by primordial gravitational waves is polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust. Therefore,…

We present a Gaussianity test of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization by analyzing the statistics of unpolarized points in the sky, classified into three distinct types: saddles, comets, and beaks. This classification of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 K. O. Parfenov , D. I. Novikov , A. O. Mihalchenko

We present efficient algorithms for CMB lensing simulation and power spectrum es- timation for flat-sky CMB polarization maps. We build a pure B-mode estimator to remedy E to B leakage due to partial sky coverage. We show that our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-14 Thibaut Louis , Sigurd Næss , Sudeep Das , Joanna Dunkley , Blake Sherwin

In this paper, we explore the power of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization (E-mode) data to corroborate four potential anomalies in CMB temperature data: the lack of large angular-scale correlations, the alignment of the…

The anisotropies of the B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background radiation play a crucial role for the study of the very early Universe. However, in the real observation, the mixture of the E-mode and B-mode can be caused by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 Yi-Fan Wang , Kai Wang , Wen Zhao

Foreground masking and incomplete sky coverage complicate CMB polarization analyses by inducing mode coupling and imperfect E/B separation, with particularly strong impact on searches for primordial $B$-modes. We present SkyReconNet-P, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Reyhan D. Lambaga , Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

In this work we study the relevance of the component separation technique based on the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and investigate its performance in the context of a limited sky coverage observation and from the viewpoint of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Federico Stivoli , Carlo Baccigalupi , Davide Maino , Radek Stompor

Detection of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is one of the frontiers of observational cosmology. Because they are an order of magnitude fainter than E-modes, it is quite a challenge to detect B-modes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-23 Ata Karakci , P. M. Sutter , Le Zhang , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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

Map-making presents a significant computational challenge to the next generation of kilopixel CMB polarisation experiments. Years worth of time ordered data (TOD) from thousands of detectors will need to be compressed into maps of the T, Q…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-16 D. Sutton , B. R. Johnson , M. L. Brown , P. Cabella , P. G. Ferreira , K. M. Smith

Multi-frequency observations are needed to separate the CMB from foregrounds and accurately extract cosmological information from the data. The Analytical Blind Separation (ABS) method is dedicated to extracting the CMB power spectrum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Larissa Santos , Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Shamik Ghosh , Pengjie Zhang , Wen Zhao , Thyrso Villela , Jiming Chen , Jacques Delabrouille

The detection of B-modes in the CMB polarization pattern is a major issue in modern cosmology and must therefore be handled with analytical methods that produce reliable results. We describe a method that uses the frequency dependency of…

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

In observation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, "$EB$~leakage" refers to the artificial $B$-mode signal coming from the leakage of $E$-mode signal when part of the sky is unavailable or excluded. Correction of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hao Liu , James Creswell , Sebastian von Hausegger , Pavel Naselsky

The presence of astrophysical emissions in microwave observations forces us to perform component separation to extract the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal. However, even in the most optimistic cases, there are still strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

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

The quest for primordial $B$-mode polarization signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a major goal of contemporary cosmology. Detecting these signatures would confirm primordial gravitational waves and allow precise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Yusuke Takase

We present a Bayesian parametric component separation method for polarised microwave sky maps. We solve jointly for the primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal and the main Galactic polarised foreground components. For the latter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Roger de Belsunce , Steven Gratton , George Efstathiou