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Preparation to the CMB PLANCK data analysis, estimation of the contamination due to the galactic polarized emissions

This work is point of the preparation to the analysis of the PLANCK satellite data. The PLANCK satellite is an ESA mission which has been launched the 14th of may 2009 and is dedicaced to the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez

BICEP2 / Keck Array x: Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and New BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Array observations at 220 GHz and additional observations at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-17 Keck Array , BICEP2 Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , B. P. Crill , M. Crumrine , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , N. A. Larsen , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , C. Zhang

A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

We present a measurement of the $B$-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. The CMB power spectra are measured using observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , S. Beckman , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , J. Carron , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. A. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. Jaehnig , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , A. Mangu , F. Matsuda , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Verges , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

Forecast B-modes detection at large scales in presence of noise and foregrounds

We investigate the detectability of the primordial CMB polarization B-mode power spectrum on large scales in the presence of instrumental noise and realistic foreground contamination. We have worked out a method to estimate the errors on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Bonaldi , S. Ricciardi

Hemispherical Variance Anomaly and Reionization Optical Depth

CMB full-sky temperature data show a hemispherical asymmetry in power nearly aligned with the Ecliptic. In real space, this anomaly can be quantified by the temperature variance in the northern and southern Ecliptic hemispheres, with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Marcio O'Dwyer , Craig J. Copi , Johanna M. Nagy , C. Barth Netterfield , John Ruhl , Glenn D. Starkman

Separation of polarized dust emission in Planck observations with Scattering Transforms

Polarized dust emission is a major astrophysical foreground contaminant of the cosmic microwave background polarization (CMB), which must be accurately measured to look for the faint primordial polarization B-modes of inflationary origin.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Alexandros Tsouros , Elisa Russier , Erwan Allys , Constant Auclair , François Boulanger , Jacques Delabrouille

Limits on Polarized Dust Spectral Index Variations for CMB Foreground Analysis

Using Planck polarization data, we search for and constrain spatial variations of the polarized dust foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations, specifically in its spectral index, $\beta_d$. Failure to account for such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Keisuke Osumi , Janet L. Weiland , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett

Testing for spectral index variations in polarised CMB foregrounds

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

Cosmology From CMB Lensing and Delensed EE Power Spectra Using 2019-2020 SPT-3G Polarization Data

From CMB polarization data alone we reconstruct the CMB lensing power spectrum, comparable in overall constraining power to previous temperature-based reconstructions, and an unlensed E-mode power spectrum. The observations, taken in 2019…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 F. Ge , M. Millea , E. Camphuis , C. Daley , N. Huang , Y. Omori , W. Quan , E. Anderes , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , A. Hryciuk , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

The anomaly of the CMB power with the latest Planck data

The lack of power anomaly is an unexpected feature observed at large angular scales in the CMB maps produced by the COBE, WMAP and Planck satellites. This signature, which consists in a missing of power with respect to that predicted by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 M. Billi , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martínez-González

Detection of Dipole Modulation in CMB Temperature Anisotropy Maps from WMAP and Planck using Artificial Intelligence

Breakdown of rotational invariance of the primordial power spectrum manifests in the statistical anisotropy of the observed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Hemispherical power asymmetry in the CMB may be caused due to a dipolar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Md Ishaque Khan , Rajib Saha

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , H. Hirose , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Vergès , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

Planck 2013 results. XXXI. Consistency of the Planck data

The Planck design and scanning strategy provide many levels of redundancy that can be exploited to provide tests of internal consistency. One of the most important is the comparison of the 70GHz and 100GHz channels. Based on different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Arnaud , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Levy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , C. Burigana , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , H. C. Chiang , R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Desert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Dore , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , T. A. Ensslin , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , M. Giard , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , K. M. Gorski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , S. Henrot-Versille , C. D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihanen , R. Keskitalo , J. Knoche , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lahteenmaki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , R. Leonardi , J. Leon-Tavares , J. Lesgourgues , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Lilley , M. Linden-Vornle , M. Lopez-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macias-Perez , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschenes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , D. Pearson , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , L. Popa , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubino-Martin , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Scott , V. Stolyarov , R. Sudiwala , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , S. D. M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Planck 2018 results. XI. Polarized dust foregrounds

The study of polarized dust emission has become entwined with the analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. We use new Planck maps to characterize Galactic dust emission as a foreground to the CMB polarization. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Planck Collaboration , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , H. C. Chiang , C. Combet , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , E. Falgarone , Y. Fantaye , K. Ferrière , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , V. Guillet , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , D. Herranz , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , J. D. Soler , L. D. Spencer , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , F. Vansyngel , F. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , I. K. Wehus , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

A 2500 square-degree CMB lensing map from combined South Pole Telescope and Planck data

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing map produced from a linear combination of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and \emph{Planck} temperature data. The 150 GHz temperature data from the $2500\ {\rm deg}^{2}$ SPT-SZ survey is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Y. Omori , R. Chown , G. Simard , K. T. Story , K. Aylor , E. J. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , G. P. Holder , Z. Hou , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Luong-Van , A. Manzotti , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

Making sky maps from Planck data

We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from Planck-sized, all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. Three of the codes are based on a destriping algorithm; the other three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. J. Ashdown , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balbi , J. G. Bartlett , J. Borrill , C. Cantalupo , G. de Gasperis , K. M. Gorski , E. Hivon , E. Keihanen , H. Kurki-Suonio , C. R. Lawrence , P. Natoli , T. Poutanen , S. Prunet , M. Reinecke , R. Stompor , B. Wandelt

Dust polarization modeling at large-scale over the Northern Galactic cap using EBHIS and Planck data

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,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Debabrata Adak , Tuhin Ghosh , Francois Boulanger , Peter Kalberla , Urmas Haud , Peter G. Martin , Andrea Bracco , Tarun Souradeep

Recovering unbiased CMB polarization maps using modern ground-based experiments with minimal assumptions about atmospheric emission

We present a study of unbiased reconstruction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization maps from data collected by modern ground-based observatories. Atmospheric emission is a major source of correlated noise in such experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Simon Biquard , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Preparation to the CMB PLANCK data analysis, bias due to the galactic polarized emissions

The PLANCK satellite mission has been launched the 14th of May 2009 and is dedicated to the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. The presence of diffuse galactic polarized emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-20 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez , F. X. Desert

Lack-of-correlation anomaly in CMB large scale polarisation maps

We present an assessment of the CMB large scale anomalies in polarisation using the two-point correlation function as a test case. We employ the state of the art of large scale polarisation datasets: the first based on a Planck 2018 HFI 100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Caterina Chiocchetta , Alessandro Gruppuso , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Paolo Natoli , Luca Pagano