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In this review, we intend to present the current knowledge of the polarized emission from thermal dust in our Galaxy. We show different methods to estimate the spatial distribution statistics of this emission in the lack of any data from…

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CMB polarization provides a unique window into cosmological inflation; the amplitude of the B-mode polarization from last scattering is uniquely sensitive to the energetics of inflation. However, numerous systematic effects arising from…

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Contamination by polarized foregrounds is one of the biggest challenges for future polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys and the potential detection of primordial $B$-modes. Future experiments, such as Simons Observatory (SO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown , Kevin M. Huffenberger

In the context of maximum-likelihood parametric component separation for next-generation full-sky CMB polarization experiments, we study the impact of fitting different spectral parameters of Galactic foregrounds in distinct subsets of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Arianna Rizzieri , Clément Leloup , Josquin Errard , Davide Poletti

In this paper we briefly review the current status of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations, summarising the latest results obtained from CMB experiments, both in intensity and polarization, and the constraints imposed on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. B. Barreiro

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

The characterization of the dust polarization foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a necessary step towards the detection of the B-mode signal associated with primordial gravitational waves. We present a method to simulate…

The polarization of the CMBR represents a powerful test for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters, and also to observe the contribution of gravitational waves background to the CMBR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin

The temperature anisotropies and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a window back to the physics of the early universe. They encode the nature of the initial fluctuations and so can reveal much about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anthony Challinor

One of the primary challenges facing upcoming CMB polarization experiments aiming to measure the inflationary B-mode signal is the removal of polarized foregrounds. The thermal dust foreground is often modeled as a single modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Danielle Sponseller , Alan Kogut

We present a formalism for performance forecasting and optimization of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We implement it in the context of nearly full sky, multifrequency, B-mode polarization observations, incorporating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Josquin Errard , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor

Polarization is the next frontier of CMB analysis, but its signal is dominated over much of the sky by foregrounds which must be carefully removed. To determine the efficacy of this cleaning it is necessary to have sensitive tests for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-06 Duncan Hanson , Douglas Scott , Emory F. Bunn

The measurement and characterization of the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is key goal of the current and next generation of CMB experiments. We perform a case study of a three-channel balloon-borne CMB experiment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi , Samuel Leach , Amit P. S. Yadav

The inflationary $B$-mode signals encode invaluable information about the origin of our Universe and searching for potential signatures of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) is one of the major science goals for future precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Sen Li , Chang Feng , Filipe B. Abdalla

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization observations will require superb control of systematic errors in order to achieve their full scientific potential, particularly in the case of attempts to detect the B modes that may provide a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Emory F. Bunn

Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation experiments are targeting the polarized $B$-mode signal. The small amplitude of this signal makes a successful measurement challenging for current technologies. Therefore, very…

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In Luparello et al. 2023, a new and hitherto unknown CMB foreground was detected. A systematic decrease in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperatures around nearby large spiral galaxies points to an unknown interaction with CMB photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Frode K. Hansen , Ezequiel F. Boero , Heliana E. Luparello , Diego Garcia Lambas

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) contains perturbations that are close to Gaussian and isotropic. This means that its information content, in the sense of the ability to constrain cosmological models, is closely related to the number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Douglas Scott , Dagoberto Contreras , Ali Narimani , Yin-Zhe Ma

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

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