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One of the key steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis is component separation to recover the CMB signal from multi-frequency observations contaminated by foreground emissions. Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Debabrata Adak

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

One of the main obstacles for extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from mm/submm observations is the pollution from the main Galactic components: synchrotron, free-free and thermal dust emission. The feasibility of using simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Carlo Baccigalupi

Component separation is the process of extracting one or more emission sources in astrophysical maps. It is therefore crucial to develop models that can accurately clean the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in current and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , G. Puglisi , C. Baccigalupi

Component separation methods mitigate the cross-contamination between different extragalactic and galactic contributions to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. This is often done by linearly combining CMB maps from different frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jack Y. L. Kwok , William R. Coulton , Niall MacCrann , Fiona McCarthy , Boris Bolliet , Blake D. Sherwin

Using the formalism of spin-weighted functions we present an all-sky analysis of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Linear polarization is a second-rank symmetric and traceless tensor, which can be decomposed on a sphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Matias Zaldarriaga , Uros Seljak

We explore a novel analysis framework for parameter inference with large-scale CMB polarization data. Our method uses simulation-based inference combined with the needlet internal linear combination (NILC) algorithm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Kristen Surrao , Adrian E. Bayer , Alexandre E. Adler , Nadia Dachlythra , Susanna Azzoni , J. Colin Hill

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

The new generation of CMB polarization experiments will reach limits of sensitivity never achieved before to detect the primordial B-mode signal. However, all these efforts will be futile if we lack a tight control of systematics. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 E. de la Hoz , P. Diego-Palazuelos , E. Martínez-González , P. Vielva , R. B. Barreiro , J. D. Bilbao-Ahedo

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarisation provide a unique probe of inflationary physics. Extracting a reliable constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ nonetheless demands stringent suppression of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aliza Mustafa , Alessandro Carones , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Marina Migliaccio , Carlo Baccigalupi

We present an augmented version of our dual messenger algorithm for spin field reconstruction on the sphere, while accounting for highly non-trivial and realistic noise models such as modulated correlated noise. We also describe an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

In the recent years, the internal-linear-combination (ILC) method was investigated extensively in the context of reconstruction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy signal using observations obtained by WMAP and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Ujjal Purkayastha , Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

Separation of the B component of a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization map from the much larger E component is an essential step in CMB polarimetry. For a map with incomplete sky coverage, this separation is necessarily hampered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-22 Emory F. Bunn

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

The aim of this project is to recover the CMB anisotropies maps in temperature and polarized intensity by means of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) which, after appropiate training, can remove the foregrounds from Planck and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 A. Quintana-Estellés , B. Ruiz-Granados , P. Ruiz-Lapuente

We consider the effectiveness of foreground cleaning in the recovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization sourced by gravitational waves for tensor-to-scalar ratios in the range $0<r<0.1$. Using the planned survey area,…

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) primordial B-modes signal is predicted to be much lower than the polarized Galactic emission (foregrounds) in any region of the sky pointing to the need for sophisticated component separation methods.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Alessandro Carones , Marina Migliaccio , Giuseppe Puglisi , Carlo Baccigalupi , Domenico Marinucci , Nicola Vittorio , Davide Poletti

The polarization modes of the cosmological microwave background are an invaluable source of information for cosmology, and a unique window to probe the energy scale of inflation. Extracting such information from microwave surveys requires…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Jerome Bobin , Florent Sureau , Jean-Luc Starck

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primordial B-modes, could reveal the presence of gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 The LSPE collaboration , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , V. Fafone , F. Farsian , L. Ferrari Barusso , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , L. Galli , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , D. Grosso , A. Gruppuso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. H. López-Caraballo , M. Lumia , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , L. Mele , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , U. Natale , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Panico , F. Paonessa , S. Paradiso , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , F. Pezzotta , G. Polenta , A. Rocchi , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. C. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , R. E. J. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni