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The search for primordial gravitational waves is a central goal of cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. Isolating the characteristic $B$-mode polarization signal sourced by primordial gravitational waves is challenging for several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

Distortions in the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) along the line-of-sight can be modeled and described using 11 fields. These distortion fields correspond to various cosmological signals such as weak gravitational lensing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Amit P. S. Yadav , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

The primary scientific target of the CMB polarization experiments that are currently being built and proposed is the detection of primordial tensor perturbations. As a byproduct, these instruments will significantly improve constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Levon Pogosian , Meir Shimon , Matthew Mewes , Brian Keating

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

The upcoming generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments face a major challenge in detecting the weak cosmic B-mode signature predicted as a product of primordial gravitational waves. To achieve the required sensitivity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 D. T. O'Dea , C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

We use a model of polarized Galactic emission developed by the the Planck collaboration to assess the impact of foregrounds on B-mode detection at low multipoles. Our main interest is to applications of noisy polarization data and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 George Efstathiou , Steven Gratton , Francesco Paci

In this work we present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm for the identification of the appropriate parametrization of diffuse polarized Galactic emissions in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) $B$-mode multi-frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Farida Farsian , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

[Abridged] The polarization of the CMB is widely recognized as a potential source of information about primordial gravitational waves. The gravitational wave contribution can be separated from the dominant CMB polarization created by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher M. Hirata , Abraham Loeb , Niayesh Afshordi

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…

We quantify the limiting factors in optimizing current-technology cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments in order to learn about inflationary physics. We consider space-based, balloon-borne and ground-based experiments.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Licia Verde , Hiranya Peiris , Raul Jimenez

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

We present a Bayesian parametric component separation method for polarised microwave sky maps. We solve jointly for the primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal and the main Galactic polarised foreground components. For the latter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Roger de Belsunce , Steven Gratton , George Efstathiou

The quest for primordial $B$-mode polarization signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a major goal of contemporary cosmology. Detecting these signatures would confirm primordial gravitational waves and allow precise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Yusuke Takase

The detection of primordial $B$-mode polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a major observational goal in modern Cosmology, offering a potential window into inflationary physics through the measurement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Claudio Ranucci , Alessandro Carones , Léo Vacher , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

The Simons Observatory (SO), due to start full science operations in early 2025, aims to set tight constraints on inflationary physics by inferring the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ from measurements of CMB polarization $B$-modes. Its nominal…

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Future low-noise cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements from e.g., CMB-S4 will be polarization dominated, rather than temperature dominated. In this new regime, statistically optimal lensing reconstructions outperform the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Frank J. Qu , Marius Millea , Emmanuel Schaan

We study how the shape of the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves can be constrained by future experiments looking at the B-mode of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization. We implement a Principal Component Analysis (PCA)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-15 Paolo Campeti , Davide Poletti , Carlo Baccigalupi

We compare multiple foreground-cleaning pipelines for estimating the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, using simulated maps of the planned CMB-S4 experiment within the context of the South Pole Deep Patch. To evaluate robustness, we analyze bias…

The detection of the magnetic type $B$-mode polarization is the main goal of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. In the standard model, the $B$-mode map is a strongly non-gaussian field due to the lensed component. Besides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Larissa Santos , Kai Wang , Wen Zhao