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Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been a cornerstone in many cosmology experiments and studies since it was discovered back in 1964. Traditional computational models like CAMB that are used for generating CMB temperature anisotropy maps…

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We present a blind multi-detector multi-component spectral matching method for all sky observations of the cosmic microwave background, working on the spherical harmonics basis. The method allows to estimate on a set of observation maps the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Patanchon , H. Snoussi , J. F. Cardoso , J. Delabrouille

In order to extract information about inflationary gravitational waves using $B$-mode patterns of cosmic microwave polarization anisotropy, we need to remove the foreground radiation from the Milky Way. In our previous delta-map method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-27 Yuto Minami , Kiyotomo Ichiki

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 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

Separating foregrounds from the signal is one of the big challenges in cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. A simple way to estimate the CMB temperature in a given pixel is to fit for the amplitudes of the CMB and the various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Scott Dodelson

Simulated observations of a $10\dg \times 10\dg$ field by the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) are analysed in order to separate cosmic microwave background (CMB) emission from foreground contaminants and instrumental noise and thereby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Jones , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby

Distortions in the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) along the line-of-sight can be modeled and described using 11 fields. These distortion fields correspond to various cosmological signals such as weak gravitational lensing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Amit P. S. Yadav , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

In this review, we give an overview of some of the major aspects of data reduction and analysis for the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Since its prediction and discovery in the last century, the CMB radiation has proven itself to be one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Matthieu Tristram , Ken Ganga

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

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

We present a formalism for performance forecasting and optimization of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We implement it in the context of nearly full sky, multifrequency, B-mode polarization observations, incorporating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Josquin Errard , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of cosmology, providing insight into structure formation and the evolution of the universe. Current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yuka Nakato , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira , Yuuki Omori , Abhishek S. Maniyar

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

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

The dissipation of small-scale perturbations in the early universe produces a distortion in the blackbody spectrum of cosmic microwave background photons. In this work, we propose to use these distortions as a probe of the microphysics of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 James A. D. Diacoumis , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

The Cosmological Microwave Background (CMB) is of premier importance for the cosmologists to study the birth of our universe. Unfortunately, most CMB experiments such as COBE, WMAP or Planck do not provide a direct measure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , S. Basak

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

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…

Extragalactic foregrounds in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature maps lead to significant biases in CMB lensing reconstruction if not properly accounted for. Combinations of multi-frequency data have been used to minimize the…

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