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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…

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Multi-frequency observations are needed to separate the CMB from foregrounds and accurately extract cosmological information from the data. The Analytical Blind Separation (ABS) method is dedicated to extracting the CMB power spectrum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Larissa Santos , Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Shamik Ghosh , Pengjie Zhang , Wen Zhao , Thyrso Villela , Jiming Chen , Jacques Delabrouille

Analysis of microwave sky signals, such as the cosmic microwave background, often requires component separation with multi-frequency methods, where different signals are isolated by their frequency behaviors. Many so-called "blind" methods,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Fiona McCarthy , J. Colin Hill , William R. Coulton , David W. Hogg

We present an extension of the harmonic-space maximum-entropy component separation method (MEM) for multi-frequency CMB observations that allows one to perform the separation with more plausible assumptions about the receiver noise and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Stolyarov , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby , R. B. Barreiro

To efficiently probe primordial non-Gaussianity using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, we require theoretical predictions that are factorizable, \textit{i.e.}\ those whose kinematic dependence can be separated. This property does not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Kunhao Zhong , Salvatore Samuele Sirletti

Separation of the B component of a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization map from the much larger E component is an essential step in CMB polarimetry. For a map with incomplete sky coverage, this separation is necessarily hampered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-22 Emory F. Bunn

We consider the effectiveness of foreground cleaning in the recovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization sourced by gravitational waves for tensor-to-scalar ratios in the range $0<r<0.1$. Using the planned survey area,…

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…

We estimate the accuracy with which various cosmological parameters can be determined from the CMB temperature and polarization data when various galactic unpolarized and polarized foregrounds are included and marginalized using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Prunet , S. K. Sethi , F. R. Bouchet

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

Reaching the sufficient sensitivity to detect primordial B-modes requires modern CMB polarisation experiments to rely on new technologies, necessary for the deployment of arrays thousands of detectors with a broad frequency coverage and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Clara Vergès , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

One of the main obstacles for extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from mm/submm observations is the pollution from the main Galactic components: synchrotron, free-free and thermal dust emission. The feasibility of using simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

The primordial CMB $B$-mode search is on the spotlight of the scientific community due to the large amount of cosmological information that is encoded in the primeval signal. However, the detection of this signal is challenging from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 E. de la Hoz , P. Vielva , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martínez-González

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a fundamental observational tool in modern cosmology. The linear polarization of the CMB provides a crucial observational tool for exploring new physics, including the inflationary paradigm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Vyoma Muralidhara

An improved method for subtracting contaminants from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) sky maps is presented, and used to estimate how well future experiments will be able to recover the primordial CMB fluctuations. We find that the naive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Max Tegmark , George Efstathiou

In this work we study the relevance of the component separation technique based on the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and investigate its performance in the context of a limited sky coverage observation and from the viewpoint of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Federico Stivoli , Carlo Baccigalupi , Davide Maino , Radek Stompor

AIMS: The separation of foreground contamination from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations is one of the most challenging and important problem of digital signal processing in Cosmology. In literature, various techniques have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Vio , P. Andreani

We study the performance of a typical near-future full sky CMB space mission, aiming at the characterization of the large scale $B$-modes polarization anisotropies with precision on $r\sim 0.001$, after a map-based parametric cleaning of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

We present in this paper the PolEMICA (Polarized Expectation-Maximization Independent Component Analysis) algorithm which is an extension to polarization of the SMICA (Spectral Matching Independent Component Analysis) temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Aumont , J. F. Macias-Perez