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Expected dipole asymmetry in CMB polarization

We explore the hemispherical asymmetry predicted in cosmic microwave background polarization when there is an asymmetry in temperature anisotropies due to primordial perturbations. We consider the cases of asymmetries due to adiabatic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. H. Namjoo , A. A. Abolhasani , H. Assadullahi , S. Baghram , H. Firouzjahi , D. Wands

Towards understanding the Planck thermal dust models

Understanding the properties of dust emission in the microwave domain is an important premise for the next generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, devoted to the measurement of the primordial $B$-modes of polarization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hao Liu , Sebastian von Hausegger , Pavel Naselsky

Planck 2015 results. XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters

This paper presents the Planck 2015 likelihoods, statistical descriptions of the 2-point correlations of CMB data, using the hybrid approach employed previously: pixel-based at $\ell<30$ and a Gaussian approximation to the distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , 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. Désert , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , K. Dolag , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , J. Fergusson , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , C. Gauthier , M. Gerbino , M. Giard , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , F. K. Hansen , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Knoche , L. Knox , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Lilley , M. Linden-Vørnle , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , M. Migliaccio , M. Millea , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , S. Mottet , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , A. Narimani , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , P. Serra , L. D. Spencer , M. Spinelli , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , F. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

The Location of CMB Peaks in a Universe with Dark Energy

The locations of the peaks of the CMB spectrum are sensitive indicators of cosmological parameters, yet there is no known analytic formula which accurately describes their dependence on them. We parametrize the location of the peaks as l_m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Doran , Matthew Lilley

Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data

Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. During three seasons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-25 H. C. Chiang , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

Polarization observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Cosmic Background Imager from September 2002 to May 2004 provide a significant detection of the E-mode polarization and reveal an angular power spectrum of polarized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. S. Readhead , S. T. Myers , T. J. Pearson , J. L. Sievers , B. S. Mason , C. R. Contaldi , J. R. Bond , R. Bustos , P. Altamirano , C. Achermann , L. Bronfman , J. E. Carlstrom , J. K. Cartwright , S. Casassus , C. Dickinson , W. L. Holzapfel , J. M. Kovac , E. M. Leitch , J. May , S. Padin , D. Pogosyan , M. Pospieszalski , C. Pryke , R. Reeves , M. C. Shepherd , S. Torres

Using peak distribution of the cosmic microwave background for MAP and Planck data analysis: formalism and simulations

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

An analytical approach to the CMB Polarization in a Spatially Closed background

The scalar mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background is derived in a spatially closed universe from the Boltzmann equation using the line of sight integral method. The EE and TE multipole coefficients have been extracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Pedram Niazy , Amir H. Abbassi

Probing the statistical isotropy of the universe with Planck data of the cosmic microwave background

We study the angular distribution of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to probe the statistical isotropy of the universe by using precise full-sky CMB data with a model-independent approach. We investigated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 C. E. Kester , A. Bernui , W. S. Hipólito-Ricaldi

Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is our richest source of cosmological information; the standard cosmological model was largely established thanks to study of the temperature anisotropies. By the end of the decade, the Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James G. Bartlett

Predictions of Cosmic Microwave Background Foregrounds Dust Polarization Using Velocity Gradients

The observations of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background provide information about primordial inhomogeneities in the universe. However, the B-mode polarization of the inflationary gravitational wave is contaminated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Yue Hu , Ka Ho Yuen , Alex Lazarian

The Cosmic Microwave Background: Beyond the Power Spectrum

Much recent work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has focussed on the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies and particularly on the recovery of cosmological parameters from acoustic peaks in the power spectrum. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski

Planck intermediate results. XV. A study of anomalous microwave emission in Galactic clouds

Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is believed to be due to electric dipole radiation from small spinning dust grains. The aim of this paper is a statistical study of the basic properties of AME regions and the environment in which they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. I. R. Alves , M. Arnaud , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. Bobin , A. Bonaldi , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , C. Burigana , J. -F. Cardoso , S. Casassus , A. Catalano , A. Chamballu , X. Chen , H. C. Chiang , L. -Y Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , F. Couchot , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , X. Dupac , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , O. Forni , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , F. K. Hansen , D. Harrison , G. Helou , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , A. Hornstrup , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , C. R. Lawrence , R. Leonardi , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , M. Massardi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , D. Munshi , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , M. Peel , O. Perdereau , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , R. Rebolo , W. Reich , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , G. Savini , D. Scott , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , L. Terenzi , C. T. Tibbs , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , J. Varis , P. Vielva , F. Villa , B. D. Wandelt , R. Watson , A. Wilkinson , N. Ysard , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources

Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and radio continuum spectra are presented for a northern sample of 104 extragalactic radio sources, based on the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) and simultaneous multifrequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-17 Planck Collaboration , J. Aatrokoski , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , E. Angelakis , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balbi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Berdyugin , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , R. Bhatia , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , D. N. Burrows , P. Cabella , M. Capalbi , B. Cappellini , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , E. Cavazzuti , L. Cayón , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , L. -Y Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colafrancesco , S. Colombi , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , S. Cutini , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , G. de Gasperis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , C. Dickinson , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , U. Dörl , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , L. Fuhrmann , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , M. Giard , G. Giardino , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , Y. Giraud-Héraud , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , D. Harrison , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , W. Hovest , R. J. Hoyland , K. M. Huffenberger , A. H. Jaffe , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , O. King , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , L. Knox , T. P. Krichbaum , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , N. Lavonen , C. R. Lawrence , S. Leach , R. Leonardi , J. León-Tavares , M. Linden-Vørnle , E. Lindfors , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , R. Mann , M. Maris , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , M. Massardi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , W. Max-Moerbeck , M. N. Mazziotta , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , P. F. Michelson , M. Mingaliev , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , C. Monte , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , D. Munshi , A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , P. Natoli , I. Nestoras , C. B. Netterfield , E. Nieppola , K. Nilsson , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , I. J. O'Dwyer , S. Osborne , F. Pajot , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , M. Perri , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , S. Plaszczynski , P. Platania , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , T. Poutanen , G. Prézeau , P. Procopio , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , S. Rainò , W. T. Reach , A. Readhead , R. Rebolo , R. Reeves , M. Reinecke , R. Reinthal , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , J. Richards , T. Riller , D. Riquelme , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rowan-Robinson , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , J. Saarinen , M. Sandri , P. Savolainen , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , A. Sievers , A. Sillanpää , G. F. Smoot , Y. Sotnikova , J. -L. Starck , M. Stevenson , F. Stivoli , V. Stolyarov , R. Sudiwala , J. -F. Sygnet , L. Takalo , J. Tammi , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , D. J. Thompson , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tornikoski , J. -P. Torre , G. Tosti , A. Tramacere , M. Tristram , J. Tuovinen , M. Türler , M. Turunen , G. Umana , H. Ungerechts , L. Valenziano , E. Valtaoja , J. Varis , F. Verrecchia , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , J. Wu , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , J. A. Zensus , X. Zhou , A. Zonca

Principal Power of the CMB

We study the physical limitations placed on CMB temperature and polarization measurements of the initial power spectrum by geometric projection, acoustic physics, gravitational lensing and the joint fitting of cosmological parameters.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wayne Hu , Takemi Okamoto

Cosmology with Planck T-E correlation coefficient

Tensions in cosmological parameters measurement motivate a revisit of the effects of instrumental systematics. In this article, we focus on the Pearson's correlation coefficient of the cosmic microwave background temperature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Adrien La Posta , Thibaut Louis , Xavier Garrido , Matthieu Tristram , Sophie Henrot-Versillé

First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Interpretation of the TT and TE Angular Power Spectrum Peaks

The CMB has distinct peaks in both its temperature angular power spectrum (TT) and temperature-polarization cross-power spectrum (TE). From the WMAP data we find the first peak in the temperature spectrum at l = 220.1 +- 0.8 with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 L. Page , M. R. Nolta , C. Barnes , C. L. Bennett , M. Halpern , G. Hinshaw , N. Jarosik , A. Kogut , M. Limon , S. S. Meyer , H. V. Peiris , D. N. Spergel , G. S. Tucker , E. Wollack , E. L. Wright

A needlet ILC analysis of WMAP 9-year polarisation data: CMB polarisation power spectra

We estimate Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation power spectra, and temperature-polarisation cross-spectra, from the 9-year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Foreground cleaning is implemented using minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Soumen Basak , Jacques Delabrouille

Predicting the Polarization of The Microwave Background from the WMAP Temperature Maps

In this paper, we study how to predict the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background using knowledge of only the temperature (intensity) and the cross-correlation between temperature and polarization. We derive a ``Wiener prediction''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrew H. Jaffe

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Temperature and Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Measurements from Three Seasons of Data

We present the temperature power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) derived from the three seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) at 148 GHz and 218 GHz, as well as the cross-frequency spectrum between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sudeep Das , Thibaut Louis , Michael R. Nolta , Graeme E. Addison , Elia S. Battistelli , J Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Devin Crichton Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Joseph W. Fowler , Megan Gralla , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Kent D. Irwin , Arthur Kosowsky , Robert H. Lupton , Tobias A. Marriage , Danica Marsden , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Erik D. Reese , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Jonathan L. Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel S. Swetz , Eric R. Switzer , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Ed Wollack