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As confusion with lensing B-modes begins to limit experiments that search for primordial B-mode polarization, robust methods for delensing the CMB polarization sky are becoming increasingly important. We investigate in detail the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Blake D. Sherwin , Marcel Schmittfull

This paper provides full sky maps of foreground emission in all WMAP channels, with very low residual contamination from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and controlled level of instrumental noise. Foreground maps are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-25 Tuhin Ghosh , Jacques Delabrouille , Mathieu Remazeilles , Jean-Francois Cardoso , Tarun Souradeep

We report an improved technique for diffuse foreground minimization from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps using a new multi-phase iterative internal-linear-combination (ILC) approach in harmonic space. The new procedure consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Vipin Sudevan , Pavan K. Aluri , Sarvesh Kumar Yadav , Rajib Saha , Tarun Souradeep

We study a possibility of constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence with help of cosmic microwave background polarisation data in the presence of polarisation angle miscalibration without relying on any assumptions about the Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Baptiste Jost , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

We present new methods for mapping the curl-free (E-mode) and divergence-free (B-mode) components of spin 2 signals using spin directional wavelets. Our methods are equally applicable to measurements of the polarisation of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-02 Boris Leistedt , Jason D. McEwen , Martin Büttner , Hiranya V. Peiris

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 present a new model of the microwave sky in polarization that can be used to simulate data from CMB polarization experiments. We exploit the most recent results from the Planck satellite to provide an accurate description of the diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

A great deal of experimental effort is currently being devoted to the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky in temperature and polarisation. Satellites, balloon-borne, and ground-based experiments scrutinize the…

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 primordial B-modes component of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a promising experimental dataset to probe the inflationary paradigm. B-modes are indeed a direct consequence of the presence of gravitational waves in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Alessandro Manzotti

Time-resolved observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer a powerful probe of time-dependent cosmological signals, such as a stochastic gravitational wave background passing through Earth, which imprints a time-varying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yilun Guan

Using a Gibbs sampling algorithm for joint CMB estimation and component separation, we compute the large-scale CMB and foreground posteriors of the 3-yr WMAP temperature data. Our parametric data model includes the cosmological CMB signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 H. K. Eriksen , C. Dickinson , J. B. Jewell , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski , C. R. Lawrence

We introduce a pixel space method to detect dipole modulation or hemispherical power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The method relies on the use of squared total polarized flux whose ensemble average picks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Shamik Ghosh , Pankaj Jain

We study the degree to which the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity involving one tensor and two scalar fluctuations, focusing on the correlation of one polarization $B$ mode with two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers , Alex van Engelen , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Primordial gravitational waves leave a characteristic imprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the form of $B$-mode polarization. Photons are also deflected by large scale gravitational waves which intervene between the source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Connor Sheere , Alexander van Engelen , P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers

We present an analysis of errors on the tensor-to-scalar ratio due to residual diffuse foregrounds. We use simulated observations of a CMB polarization satellite, the Cosmic Origins Explorer, using the specifications of the version proposed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

A new method for removing point radio sources and other non-Gaussian noise is proposed as a means of improving the accuracy of estimates of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The main idea of the method is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anisa T. Bajkova

[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

Recent developments in the search for inflationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization motivate the search for new diagnostics to distinguish the Galactic foreground contribution to B modes from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 Marc Kamionkowski , Ely D. Kovetz