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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

Foreground masking and incomplete sky coverage complicate CMB polarization analyses by inducing mode coupling and imperfect E/B separation, with particularly strong impact on searches for primordial $B$-modes. We present SkyReconNet-P, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Reyhan D. Lambaga , Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

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

We present a high performance solution to the Wiener filtering problem via a formulation that is dual to the recently developed messenger technique. This new dual messenger algorithm, like its predecessor, efficiently calculates the Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present a method for accelerating the calculation of CMB power spectra, matter power spectra and likelihood functions for use in cosmological parameter estimation. The algorithm, called CosmoNet, is based on training a multilayer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Auld , M. Bridges , M. P. Hobson , S. F. Gull

Wavelet functions allow the sparse and efficient representation of a signal at different scales. Recently the application of wavelets to the denoising of maps of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations has been proposed. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Klaus Maisinger , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby

We present a new application of deep learning to reconstruct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the images of microwave sky, and to use these reconstructed maps to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters. We use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 N. Gupta , C. L. Reichardt

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

As Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements are becoming more ambitious, the issue of foreground contamination is becoming more pressing. This is especially true at the level of sensitivity, angular resolution and for the sky coverage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 François R. Bouchet , Richard Gispert

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) stands as a pivotal source for studying weak gravitational lensing. While the lensed CMB aids in constraining cosmological parameters, it simultaneously smooths the original CMB's features. The angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

We apply state-of-the art data analysis methods to a number of fictitious CMB mapping experiments, including 1/f noise, distilling the cosmological information from time-ordered data to maps to power spectrum estimates, and find that in all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Max Tegmark

Speech enhancement in the time-frequency domain is often performed by estimating a multiplicative mask to extract clean speech. However, most neural network-based methods perform point estimation, i.e., their output consists of a single…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Huajian Fang , Tal Peer , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

This paper explores a novel application of spherical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect primordial non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a key probe of inflationary dynamics. While effective, traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Jorik Melsen , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been extremely successful in solving intensive computer vision tasks. The convolutional filters used in CNNs have played a major role in this success, by extracting useful features from the inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Pravendra Singh , Pratik Mazumder , Vinay P. Namboodiri

We present a comprehensive neural architecture, the PUREPath, which leverages a nested Probabilistic multi-modal U- Net framework, augmented by the inclusion of probabilistic ResNet blocks in the Expanding Pathway of the decoders, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

Gravitational lensing of the CMB is a valuable cosmological signal that correlates to tracers of large-scale structure and acts as a important source of confusion for primordial $B$-mode polarization. State-of-the-art lensing reconstruction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum is a powerful cosmological probe as it entails almost all the statistical information of the CMB perturbations. Having access to only one sky, the CMB power spectrum measured by our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-23 P. Paykari , J. L. Starck , M. J. Fadili

We present a new method for time-efficient and accurate extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps based on properties of peaks and troughs of the Gaussian CMB sky. We construct a statistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Kashlinsky , C. Hernández--Monteagudo , F. Atrio--Barandela

In order to extract cosmological information from observations of the millimeter and submillimeter sky, foreground components must first be removed to produce an estimate of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We developed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Matthew A. Petroff , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Janet L. Weiland

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss