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[Abridged] Recent results from the BICEP, Keck Array and Planck Collaborations demonstrate that Galactic foregrounds are an unavoidable obstacle in the search for evidence of inflationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Josquin Errard , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew H. Jaffe

We investigate which practical constraints are imposed by foregrounds to the detection of the B-mode polarization generated by gravitational waves in the case of experiments of the type currently being planned. Because the B-mode signal is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Tucci , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Vielva , J. Delabrouille

We explore a systematic approach to the analysis of primordial non-Gaussianity using fluctuations in temperature and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Following Munshi & Heavens (2009), we define a set of power-spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens , Joseph Smidt

Line-of-sight distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), including gravitational lensing, cosmic birefringence, and patchy screening, encode crucial cosmological information. While quadratic estimators (QE) have been excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Omar Darwish

We derive a fast way for measuring primordial non-Gaussianity in a nearly full-sky map of the cosmic microwave background. We find a cubic combination of sky maps combining bispectrum configurations to capture a quadratic term in primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eiichiro Komatsu , David N. Spergel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

A key goal of many Cosmic Microwave Background experiments is the detection of gravitational waves, through their B-mode polarization signal at large scales. To extract such a signal requires modelling contamination from the Galaxy. Using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Charmaine Armitage-Caplan , Joanna Dunkley , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Clive Dickinson

The Quadratic Maximum Likelihood estimator can be used to reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra with minimal error bars. Still, it requires an accurate estimate of the datasets noise covariance matrix in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 S. Vanneste , S. Henrot-Versillé , T. Louis , M. Tristram

We build template maps for the polarized Galactic--synchrotron emission on large angular scales (FWHM =~7$^\circ$), in the 20-90 GHz microwave range, by using WMAP data. The method, presented in a recent work, requires a synchrotron total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni , J. L. Jonas

We study Minkowski Functionals as probes of primordial non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Microwave Background, specifically for the estimate of the primordial `local' bi-spectrum parameter f_NL, with instrumental parameters which should be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anne Ducout , François Bouchet , Stéphane Colombi , Dmitri Pogosyan , Simon Prunet

Estimation of the B-mode angular power spectrum of polarized anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a key step towards a full exploitation of the scientific potential of this probe. In the context of pseudo-spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 A. Ferte , J. Grain , M. Tristram , R. Stompor

Automated source extraction and parameterization represents a crucial challenge for the next-generation radio interferometer surveys, such as those performed with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors. In this paper we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-09 S. Riggi , A. Ingallinera , P. Leto , F. Cavallaro , F. Bufano , F. Schillirò , C. Trigilio , G. Umana , C. S. Buemi , R. P. Norris

In this paper we present a new method to estimate a foreground cleaned Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) map at a resolution of $1^\circ$ by minimizing the non-Gaussian properties of the cleaned map which arise dominantly due to diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rajib Saha

In order to draw scientific conclusions from observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, it is necessary to separate the contributions of the E and B components of the data. For data with incomplete sky coverage, there…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Emory F. Bunn , Benjamin Wandelt

In this paper we estimate diffuse foreground minimized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Stokes Q and U polarization maps based upon the fundamental concept of Gaussian nature of CMB and strong non-Gaussian nature of astrophysical polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-10 Ujjal Purkayastha , Rajib Saha

Computing polarised intensities from noisy data in Stokes U and Q suffers from a positive bias that should be suppressed. To develop a correction method that, when applied to maps, should provide a distribution of polarised intensity that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Peter Müller , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause

Precision measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require extreme control of instrumental systematics. In a companion paper we have presented cosmological constraints from observations with the BICEP2 and Keck Array…

We present posterior sample-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints from Planck LFI and WMAP observations derived through global end-to-end Bayesian processing. We use these samples to study correlations between CMB, foreground,…

We propose a Bayesian uncertainty quantification method for large-scale imaging inverse problems. Our method applies to all Bayesian models that are log-concave, where maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) estimation is a convex optimization problem.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-07 Audrey Repetti , Marcelo Pereyra , Yves Wiaux

The search for gamma-ray counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) requires accurate and robust background modeling. Previous CALET observing runs (O3 and O4) relied on averaged pre/post-event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Bisweswar Sen

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