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Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is critical to the understanding of the early universe and precise estimation of cosmological constants. Due to the contamination of thermal dust noise in the galaxy, the CMB map that is an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Kai Yi , Yi Guo , Yanan Fan , Jan Hamann , Yu Guang Wang

This work extends the Elsner & Wandelt (2013) iterative method for efficient, preconditioner-free Wiener filtering to cases in which the noise covariance matrix is dense, but can be decomposed into a sum whose parts are sparse in convenient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Kevin M. Huffenberger

We propose an efficient and model independent method for reconstructing the primordial power spectrum from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and large scale structure observations. The algorithm is based on a Monte Carlo principle and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steen Hannestad

We describe an algorithm for the extraction of the angular power spectrum of an intensity field, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), from interferometer data. This new method, based on the gridding of interferometer visibilities…

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide increasingly accurate information about the structure of the Universe at the recombination epoch. Most of this information is encoded in the angular power spectrum of the CMB.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 G. Faÿ , F. Guilloux , M. Betoule , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Delabrouille , M. Le Jeune

The map-making step of Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis involves linear inversion problems which cannot be performed by a brute force approach for the large timelines of today. We present in this article optimal vector-only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xavier Dupac , Martin Giard

Extracting cosmological information from microwave sky observations requires accurate estimation of the underlying Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by removing foreground contamination, instrumental noise, and the effects of beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Obasho M , Shambhavi Jaiswal , Santanu Das , Krishna Mohan Parattu

We derive an optimal linear filter to suppress the noise from the COBE DMR sky maps for a given power spectrum. We then apply the filter to the first-year DMR data, after removing pixels within $20^\circ$ of the Galactic plane from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Emory F. Bunn , Karl B. Fisher , Yehuda Hoffman , Ofer Lahav , Joseph Silk , Saleem Zaroubi

We propose a power filter Gp for linear reconstruction of the CMB signal from observational maps. This Gp filter preserves the power spectrum of the CMB signal in contrast to the Wiener filter which diminishes the power spectrum of the…

We introduce a novel neural network, SkyReconNet, which combines the expanded receptive fields of dilated convolutional layers along with standard convolutions, to capture both the global and local features for reconstructing the missing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Reyhan D. Lambaga , Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

We present a Bayesian model for multi-resolution CMB component separation based on Wiener filtering and/or computation of constrained realizations, extending a previously developed framework. We also develop an efficient solver for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 D. S. Seljebotn , T. Bærland , H. K. Eriksen , K. -A. Mardal , I. K. Wehus

The aim of this project is to recover the CMB anisotropies maps in temperature and polarized intensity by means of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) which, after appropiate training, can remove the foregrounds from Planck and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 A. Quintana-Estellés , B. Ruiz-Granados , P. Ruiz-Lapuente

Analysis and denoising of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps are performed using wavelet multiresolution techniques. The method is tested on $12^{\circ}.8\times 12^{\circ}.8$ maps with resolution resembling the experimental one expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Sanz , F. Argueso , L. Cayon , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , R. B. Barreiro , L. Toffolatti

Recovering the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) is essential for shedding light on the exponential expansion of the very early Universe, known as cosmic inflation. Achieving this goal requires not only improved instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , G. Puglisi , C. Baccigalupi , S. R. Cabo , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , C. González-Gutiérrez , F. J. de Cos

The lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful tool for our study of the distribution of matter in the universe. Currently, the quadratic estimator (EQ) method, which is widely used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Yang-Jie Yan , Jun-Qing Xia

The precision anticipated from next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will create opportunities for characteristically new insights into cosmology. Secondary anisotropies of the CMB will have an increased importance in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

In our previous study, we introduced a machine-learning technique, namely CMBFSCNN, for the removal of foreground contamination in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data. This method was successfully employed on actual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Guo-Jian Wang , Zirui Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

We describe a new map-making code for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. It implements fast algorithms for convolution and transpose convolution of two functions on the sphere (Wandelt & G\'{o}rski 2001). Our code can account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charmaine Armitage , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys are expected to provide valuable information about the primordial universe by creating maps of the mass along the line of sight. Traditional tools for creating these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Peikai Li , Ipek Ilayda Onur , Scott Dodelson , Shreyas Chaudhari

Accurate estimation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular power spectrum is enticing due to the prospect for precision cosmology it presents. Galactic foreground emissions, however, contaminate the CMB signal and need to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Pallav Chanda , Rajib Saha