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The internal linear combination (ILC) method is a popular approach for constructing component-separated maps in cosmic microwave background (CMB) analyses. It optimally combines observed maps at different frequencies to produce an unbiased…

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Mapping the distribution of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in the Universe through its 21 cm emission line provides a powerful cosmological probe to map the large-scale structures and shed light on various cosmological phenomena. The Baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Albin Joseph , Rajib Saha

We extend the ILC method in harmonic space to include the error in its CMB estimate. This allows parameter estimation routines to take into account the effect of the foregrounds as well as the errors in their subtraction in conjunction with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 Jason Dick , Guillaume Castex , Jacques Delabrouille

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation B mode polarization signal contains the unique signature of primordial metric perturbations produced during the inflation. The separation of the weak CMB B-mode signal from strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-24 Sarvesh Kumar Yadav , Rajib Saha

AIMS: One of the most challenging and important problem of digital signal processing in Cosmology is the separation of foreground contamination from cosmic microwave background (CMB). This problem becomes even more difficult in situations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 Robertio Vio , Paola Andreani

To create high-fidelity cosmic microwave background maps, current component separation methods rely on availability of information on different foreground components, usually through multi-band frequency coverage of the instrument. Internal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Guillermo F. Quispe Peña , Andrei V. Frolov

Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments aim to achieve high-precision reconstruction of the CMB polarization signal, with the most ambitious objective being the detection of primordial $B$ modes sourced by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Alessandro Carones

Measuring weak lensing cosmic magnification signal is very challenging due to the overwhelming intrinsic clustering in the observed galaxy distribution. In this paper, we modify the Internal Linear Combination (ILC) method to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Shutong Hou , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

We have derived whole-sky CMB polarization maps from the WMAP 5 year polarization data, using the Harmonic Internal Linear Combination (HILC) method. Our HILC method incorporates spatial variability of linear weights in a natural way and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-06 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of cosmology, providing insight into structure formation and the evolution of the universe. Current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yuka Nakato , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira , Yuuki Omori , Abhishek S. Maniyar

The observation of primordial B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents the main scientific goal of most of the future CMB experiments. This signal is predicted to be much lower than polarised Galactic emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Alessandro Carones , Marina Migliaccio , Domenico Marinucci , Nicola Vittorio

In our previous study, we introduced a machine-learning technique, namely CMBFSCNN, for the removal of foreground contamination in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data. This method was successfully employed on actual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Guo-Jian Wang , Zirui Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

We present a signal-foreground separation algorithm for filtering observational data to extract spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Our linear method, called the least response method (LRM), is based on the idea…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 J. -P. Maillard , A. Mihalchenko , D. Novikov , A. Osipova , S. Pilipenko , J. Silk

Standard cosmic microwave background (CMB) analyses constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters by fitting parametric models to multifrequency power spectra (MFPS). However, such methods do not optimally weight maps in power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Kristen M. Surrao , J. Colin Hill

Based on realistic simulations, we propose an hybrid method to reconstruct the lensing potential power spectrum, directly on PLANCK-like CMB frequency maps. It implies using a large galactic mask and dealing with a strong inhomogeneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 S. Plaszczynski , A. Lavabre , L. Perotto , J. -L. Starck

We present a novel method for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground removal based on deep learning techniques. This method employs a Transformer model, referred to as \texttt{TCMB}, which is specifically designed to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li

High fidelity separation of astrophysical foreground contributions from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal has been recognized as one of the main challenges of modern CMB data analysis, and one which needs to be addressed in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Magdy Morshed , Arianna Rizzieri , Clément Leloup , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Astrophysical foreground substraction is crucial to retrieve the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization out of the observed data. Recent efforts have been carried out towards the development of a minimally informed component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Clément Leloup , Magdy Morshed , Arianna Rizzieri

We present an efficient algorithm for the least squares parameter fitting optimized for component separation in multi-frequency CMB experiments. We sidestep some of the problems associated with non-linear optimization by taking advantage of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Rishi Khatri