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One goal of CMB data analysis is to combine data at different frequencies, angular resolutions, and noise levels in order to best extract the component with a Plankian spectral behaviour. A multi-frequency Wiener filtering method has been…

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The formalism of Wiener filtering is developed here for the purpose of reconstructing the large scale structure of the universe from noisy, sparse and incomplete data. The method is based on a linear minimum variance solution, given data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Zaroubi , Y. Hoffman , K. B. Fisher , O. Lahav

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

The next-generation CMB experiments are expected to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ with high precision. Delensing is an important process as the observed CMB $B$-mode polarization that contains the primordial tensor perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 Chen Heinrich , Trey Driskell , Chris Heinrich

The delensing of cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps will be increasingly valuable for extracting as much information as possible from future CMB surveys. Delensing provides many general benefits, including sharpening of the acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Cynthia Trendafilova , Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers

We present a new Unbiased Minimal Variance (UMV) estimator for the purpose of reconstructing the large--scale structure of the universe from noisy, sparse and incomplete data. Similar to the Wiener Filter (WF), the UMV estimator is derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Saleem Zaroubi

Weak gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structure induces a distinct signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that can be used to reconstruct the weak-lensing displacement map. Estimators for individual Fourier modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Kesden , Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski

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

We develop a new method to reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, $P(k)$, by using both the temperature and polarization spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We test this method using several mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Noriyuki Kogo , Misao Sasaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We present the first reconstruction of dark matter maps from weak lensing observational data using deep learning. We train a convolution neural network (CNN) with a Unet based architecture on over $3.6\times10^5$ simulated data realizations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Niall Jeffrey , François Lanusse , Ofer Lahav , Jean-Luc Starck

Upcoming surveys will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing power spectrum in exquisite detail, allowing for strong constraints on the sum of neutrino masses among other cosmological parameters. Standard CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Delon Shen , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

Attempts to develop speech enhancement algorithms with improved speech intelligibility for cochlear implant (CI) users have met with limited success. To improve speech enhancement methods for CI users, we propose to perform speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Nursadul Mamun , Soheil Khorram , John H. L. Hansen

We present a framework for cosmological model selection using Neural Networks (NNs) trained directly on simulated Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarisation maps. By operating at the map level rather than on compressed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Indira Ocampo , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera

We have improved further the error sensitive Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm making it applicable directly on the un-binned measured angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background observations to reconstruct the form of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-14 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. However, the weak B-mode signal is overshadowed by several Galactic polarized emissions, such as thermal dust emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia

The power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing will be measured to sub-percent precision with upcoming surveys, enabling tight constraints on the sum of neutrino masses and other cosmological parameters. Measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kendrick M. Smith , Blake D. Sherwin , Sigurd Naess

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation data obtained by different experiments contain, besides the desired signal, a superposition of microwave sky contributions. We present a fast and robust method, using a wavelet decomposition on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 R. Fernández-Cobos , P. Vielva , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martínez-González

Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Primordial B-modes are a unique signature of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). However, the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia

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

We present a method to delens the acoustic peaks of the CMB temperature and polarization power spectra internally, using lensing maps reconstructed from the CMB itself. We find that when delensing CMB acoustic peaks with a lensing potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Neelima Sehgal , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Blake Sherwin , Alexander van Engelen