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Accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy call for high precision and reliability of the in-flight calibration. For extended surveys the CMB dipole provides an excellent calibration source at frequencies…

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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

Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies by interferometers offer several advantages over single-dish observations. The formalism for analyzing interferometer CMB data is well developed in the flat-sky approximation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Emory F. Bunn , Martin White

Accurate estimation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular power spectrum is enticing due to the prospect for precision cosmology it presents. Galactic foreground emissions, however, contaminate the CMB signal and need to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Pallav Chanda , Rajib Saha

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

Weak lensing of CMB anisotropies and polarization for the power spectra and higher order statistics can be handled directly in harmonic-space without recourse to real-space correlation functions. For the power spectra, this approach not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu

We derive updated Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) constraints on annihilating dark matter, and present forecasts for upcoming CMB surveys. We show that the addition of recent temperature, polarization, and lensing data from ground-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Charlotte Myers , Dominic Agius , Daniele Gaggero , Angelo Ricciardone

Astrophysical polarized foregrounds represent the most critical challenge in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode experiments. Multi-frequency observations can be used to constrain astrophysical foregrounds to isolate the CMB…

Incomplete sky analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization spectra poses a major problem of leakage between $E$- and $B$-modes. We present a machine learning approach to remove this $E$-to-$B$ leakage using a convolutional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Srikanta Pal , Rajib Saha

One of the main goals of Cosmology is to search for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB polarisation field, to probe inflationary theories. One of the obstacles toward the detection of the primordial signal is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Lagache , M. Bethermin , L. Montier , P. Serra , M. Tucci

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

In the near future, observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies will provide accurate determinations of many fundamental cosmological parameters. In this paper, we analyse degeneracies among cosmological parameters to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Efstathiou , J. R. Bond

Detection of magnetic-type ($B$-type) polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation plays a crucial role in probing the relic gravitational wave (RGW) background. In this paper, we propose a new method to deconstruct a…

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The B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a unique window into tensor perturbations from inflationary gravitational waves. Survey effects complicate the estimation and description of the power spectrum on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Eric R. Switzer , Duncan J. Watts

Context. The extreme precision and accuracy of forthcoming observations of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies, aiming to detect the tiny signatures of primordial gravitational waves or of light relic particles beyond the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Jia-Rui Li , Jacques Delabrouille , Yi-Fu Cai , Dongdong Zhang

We use a simple model to investigate the effect of polarized Galactic foreground emission on the ability of planned CMB missions to detect and model CMB polarization. Emission from likely polarized sources (synchrotron and spinning dust)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kogut , G. Hinshaw

The recently detected polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) holds the potential for revealing the physics of inflation and gravitationally mapping the large-scale structure of the universe, if so called B-mode signals below…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Wayne Hu , Matthew M. Hedman , Matias Zaldarriaga

Reconstruction of gravitational lensing effects in the CMB from current and upcoming surveys is still dominated by temperature anisotropies. Extragalactic foregrounds in temperature maps can induce significant biases in the lensing power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Frank J. Qu , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin

In order to extract cosmological information from observations of the millimeter and submillimeter sky, foreground components must first be removed to produce an estimate of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We developed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Matthew A. Petroff , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Janet L. Weiland

Using the latest physical modeling and constrained by the most recent data, we develop a phenomenological parameterized model of the contributions to intensity and polarization maps at millimeter wavelengths from external galaxies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marius Millea , Olivier Doré , Jonathan Dudley , Gilbert Holder , Lloyd Knox , Laurie Shaw , Yong-Seon Song , Oliver Zahn