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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…

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The map-making step of Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis involves linear inversion problems which cannot be performed by a brute force approach for the large timelines of today. We present in this article optimal vector-only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 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

We present a Bayesian angular power spectrum and signal map inference engine which can be adapted to interferometric observations of anisotropies inthe cosmic microwave background, 21 cm emission line mapping of galactic brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Siddharth Malu

We discuss an approach to the component separation of microwave, multi-frequency sky maps as those typically produced from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropy data sets. The algorithm is based on the two step, parametric,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Stompor , S. Leach , F. Stivoli , C. Baccigalupi

A detection or nondetection of primordial non-Gaussianity by using the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) offers a way of discriminating inflationary scenarios and testing alternative models of the early universe. This has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-15 A. Bernui , M. J. Reboucas , A. F. F. Teixeira

Clusters of galaxies, being the largest collapsed structures in the universe, offer valuable insights into the nature of cosmic evolution. Precise calibration of the mass of clusters can be obtained by extracting their gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sayan Saha , Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

We present a new method based on phase analysis for the Galaxy and foreground component separation from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal. This method is based on a prevailing assumption that the phases of the underlying CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel D. Naselsky , Oleg V. Verkhodanov , Lung-Yih Chiang , Igor D. Novikov

We present a general probabilistic formalism for cross-identifying astronomical point sources in multiple observations. Our Bayesian approach, symmetric in all observations, is the foundation of a unified framework for object matching,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tamas Budavari , Alexander S. Szalay

In recent years the goal of estimating different cosmological parameters precisely has set new challenges in the effort to accurately measure the angular power spectrum of CMB. This has required removal of foreground contamination as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rajib Saha , Simon Prunet , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep

We develop the first algorithm able to jointly compute the maximum {\it a posteriori} estimate of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields, the gravitational potential by which they are lensed, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Extraction of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) angular power spectrum is a challenging task for current and future CMB experiments due to the large data sets involved. Here we describe an implementation of MASTER (Monte carlo Apodised…

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

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the finest probes of cosmology. Its all-sky temperature and linear polarization (LP) fluctuations have been measured precisely at a level of deltaT/TCMB ~10^{-6}. In comparison, circular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Soma King , Philip Lubin

We present a new source separation method which maximizes the likelihood of a model of noisy mixtures of stationary, possibly Gaussian, independent components. The method has been devised to address the problem of imaging CMB anisotropies.…

It is possible to classify pixels of a smoothed cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuation map according to their local curvature in ``hill'', ``lake'' and ``saddle'' regions. In the Gaussian case, fractional areas occupied by pixels of…

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Broadband time-ordered data obtained from telescopes with a wavelength-dependent, asymmetric beam pattern can be used to extract maps at multiple wavelengths from a single scan. This technique is especially useful when collecting data on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Brianna Cantrall , Solomon Quinn , Emory F. Bunn

Point sources (PS) are one of the main contaminants to the recovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal at small scales, and their detection is important for the next generation of CMB experiments. We develop a method (PoSeIDoN)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 L. Bonavera , S. L. Suarez Gomez , J. González-Nuevo , M. M. Cueli , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sanchez , R. Muñiz , F. J. de Cos

We propose a method to extract the projected power spectrum of density perturbations from the distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The distortions are imprinted onto the CMB by the gravitational lensing effect and can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

Deep learning has emerged as a transformative methodology in modern cosmology, providing powerful tools to extract meaningful physical information from complex astronomical datasets. This paper implements a novel Bayesian graph deep…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Juan Alejandro Pinto Castro , Héctor J. Hortúa , Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Roger Anderson Hurtado

This paper considers a new method for the binary asteroid orbit determination problem. The method is based on the Bayesian approach with a global optimisation algorithm. The orbital parameters to be determined are modelled through an a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Irina D. Kovalenko , Radu S. Stoica , Nikolay V. Emelyanov