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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

The detection of primordial polarization $B$ modes of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) requires exquisite control of Galactic foreground contamination. The Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC) method has proven effective in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Alessandro Carones

Estimating the cosmological microwave background is of utmost importance for cosmology. However, its estimation from full-sky surveys such as WMAP or more recently Planck is challenging: CMB maps are generally estimated via the application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , J. Fadili

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Remazeilles , A. J. Banday , C. Baccigalupi , S. Basak , A. Bonaldi , G. De Zotti , J. Delabrouille , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , R. Fernandez-Cobos , U. Fuskeland , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. López-Caniego , E. Martinez-González , M. Roman , P. Vielva , I. Wehus , A. Achucarro , P. Ade , R. Allison , M. Ashdown , M. Ballardini , R. Banerji , N. Bartolo , J. Bartlett , D. Baumann , M. Bersanelli , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , Z. -Y. Cai , M. Calvo , C. -S. Carvalho , G. Castellano , A. Challinor , J. Chluba , S. Clesse , I. Colantoni , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. de Gasperis , J. -M. Diego , E. Di Valentino , S. Feeney , S. Ferraro , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , S. Grandis , J. Greenslade , S. Hagstotz , S. Hanany , W. Handley , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , M. Hills , E. Hivon , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , L. Lamagna , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Masi , D. McCarthy , J. -B. Melin , A. Melchiorri , D. Molinari , A. Monfardini , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , M. Piat , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , J. -A. Rubino-Martin , L. Salvati , A. Tartari , M. Tomasi , D. Tramonte , N. Trappe , T. Trombetti , C. Tucker , J. Valiviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , N. Vittorio , K. Young , M. Zannoni

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

Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) observations are unavoidably contaminated by emission from various extra-galactic foregrounds, which must be removed to obtain reliable measurements of the cosmological signal. In this paper, we…

The detection of Cosmic Microwave Background primordial $B$-mode polarization would constitute a ``smoking gun" signal of primordial gravitational waves. However, this measurement requires accurate removal of polarized Galactic foregrounds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Luca Gomez Bachar , Cora Dvorkin , Alberto Daniel Supanitsky

Polarized Galactic foregrounds are one of the primary sources of systematic error in measurements of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Experiments are becoming increasingly sensitive to complexities in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-13 Brandon S. Hensley , Philip Bull

It has been pointed out that the spurious Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarization signals caused by the absorption of the CMB monopole component due to the Galactic interstellar matter, called the CMB shadow, degrade the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-05 Tamaki Murokoshi , Yuji Chinone , Masashi Nashimoto , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Makoto Hattori

One of the main obstacles in extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal from observations in the mm-submm range is the foreground contamination by emission from galactic components: mainly synchrotron, free-free and thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen , H. E. Jorgensen

We study the effects of astrophysical foregrounds on the ability of CMB B-mode polarization experiments to constrain the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r. To clean the foreground contributions we use parametric, maximum likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

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

The presence of astrophysical emissions in microwave observations forces us to perform component separation to extract the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal. However, even in the most optimistic cases, there are still strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

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

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarisation provide a unique probe of inflationary physics. Extracting a reliable constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ nonetheless demands stringent suppression of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aliza Mustafa , Alessandro Carones , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Marina Migliaccio , Carlo Baccigalupi

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 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

One of the key steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis is component separation to recover the CMB signal from multi-frequency observations contaminated by foreground emissions. Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Debabrata Adak

The characterization of the dust polarization foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a necessary step towards the detection of the B-mode signal associated with primordial gravitational waves. We present a method to simulate…

Incomplete sky analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization spectra poses a major problem of leakage between $E$- and $B$-modes. We present a machine learning approach to remove this $E$-to-$B$ leakage using a convolutional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Srikanta Pal , Rajib Saha

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