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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 J. Grain , M. Tristram , R. Stompor

Optimal power spectrum estimation on the largest angular scales of the cosmic microwave background relies on the Quadratic Maximum Likelihood (QML) estimator. Existing public implementations, however, each address only a subset of the…

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We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

We present a method for measuring CMB polarization power spectra given incomplete sky coverage and test it with simulated examples such as Boomerang 2001 and MAP. By augmenting the quadratic estimator method with an additional step, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

Future experiments will produce high-resolution temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and are expected to reveal the signature of gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structures. We construct all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

A new method for estimating the angular power spectrum C_l from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps is presented, which has the following desirable properties: (1) It is unbeatable in the sense that no other method can measure C_l with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

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

We present results from and the analysis of data from MAXIPOL, a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first CMB experiment to obtain results using a rotating…

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Benjamin Horowitz , Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin

We have developed a fast, accurate and generally applicable method for inferring the power spectrum and its uncertainties from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of inhomogeneous and correlated noise. For maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. Doré , L. Knox , A. Peel

We present Capse.jl, a novel neural network-based emulator designed for rapid and accurate prediction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature, polarization, and lensing angular power spectra. The emulator computes predictions in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Marco Bonici , Federico Bianchini , Jaime Ruiz-Zapatero

We develop the pseudo-Cl method for reconstructing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization auto- and cross-power spectra, and estimate the pseudo-Cl covariance matrix for a realistic experiment on the cut sky. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. L. Brown , P. G. Castro , A. N. Taylor

As the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is observed to higher and higher angular resolution the size of the resulting datasets becomes a serious constraint on their analysis. In particular current algorithms to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julian Borrill

We propose and implement a fast, universally applicable method for extracting the angular power spectrum C_l from CMB temperature maps by first estimating the correlation function \xi(\theta). Our procedure recovers the C_l's using N^2 (but…

This paper describes the 2018 Planck CMB likelihoods, following a hybrid approach similar to the 2015 one, with different approximations at low and high multipoles, and implementing several methodological and analysis refinements. With more…

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In this paper we present a power spectrum formalism that combines the full three-dimensional information from the galaxy ellipticity field, with information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We include in this approach galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , S. Das

We investigate the impact of instrumental systematic errors in interferometric measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra. We simulate interferometric CMB observations to generate mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 Le Zhang , Ata Karakci , Paul M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Over the past decade, the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard technique used to reconstruct the CMB lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro

Following Kamionkowski (2008), a quadratic estimator of the rotation of the plane of polarization of the CMB is constructed. This statistic can estimate a spatially varying rotation angle. We use this estimator to quantify the prospects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Amit P. S. Yadav , Rahul Biswas , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga