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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

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

In the recent years, the internal-linear-combination (ILC) method was investigated extensively in the context of reconstruction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy signal using observations obtained by WMAP and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Ujjal Purkayastha , Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

The Internal Linear Combination (ILC) is widely used to extract the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from multi-frequency observation maps, especially for Satellite experiments with quasi-full sky coverage. We extend ILC method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Zirui Zhang , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , De-Liang Wu , Haifeng Li , Hong Li

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,…

Cosmic birefringence, arising from a potential parity-violating interaction between cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and evolving pseudo-scalar fields such as axion-like particles, can rotate the CMB polarization plane and induce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mathieu Remazeilles

The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detecting the elusive signal from primordial tensor fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Susanna Azzoni , David Alonso , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Josquin Errard , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff

The most promising avenue for detecting primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation is through measurements of degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation. This approach must face the challenge posed by gravitational lensing of the CMB,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin , Toshiya Namikawa

The detection of primordial B-modes, a key probe of cosmic inflation, is increasingly challenged by contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by large-scale structure (LSS). We present a delensing pipeline designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Yi-Ming Wang , Hong Li

Correlations between cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, polarization and spectral distortion anisotropies can be used as a probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. Here, we perform a reconstruction of $\mu$-distortion anisotropies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 M. Remazeilles , J. Chluba

In this work we present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm for the identification of the appropriate parametrization of diffuse polarized Galactic emissions in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) $B$-mode multi-frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Farida Farsian , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

B-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization can be created by a primordial gravitational wave background. If this background was created by Inflation, then the amplitude of the polarization signal is proportional the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Amblard , Asantha Cooray , Manoj Kaplinghat

In this work, we formalize a new technique to investigate joint posterior density of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and its theoretical angular power spectrum given the observed data, using the global internal-linear-combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

Component separation methods mitigate the cross-contamination between different extragalactic and galactic contributions to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. This is often done by linearly combining CMB maps from different frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jack Y. L. Kwok , William R. Coulton , Niall MacCrann , Fiona McCarthy , Boris Bolliet , Blake D. Sherwin

We present a new method for delensing $B$ modes of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a lensing potential reconstructed from the same realization of the CMB polarization (CMB internal delensing). The $B$-mode delensing is required…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Toshiya Namikawa

The cosmic microwave background (CMB), carrying the inhomogeneous information of the very early universe, is of great significance for understanding the origin and evolution of our universe. However, observational CMB maps contain serious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-12 Guo-Jian Wang , Hong-Liang Shi , Ye-Peng Yan , Jun-Qing Xia , Yan-Yun Zhao , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Feng Li

Characterizing the sub-mm Galactic emission has become increasingly critical especially in identifying and removing its polarized contribution from the one emitted by the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this work, we present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Giuseppe Puglisi , Gueorgui Mihaylov , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Davide Poletti , Josquin Errard , Paola A. Puglisi , Giacomo Vianello

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization field has been recognized as a potentially valuable probe of the cosmological density field. We apply likelihood-based techniques to the problem of lensing of CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

As confusion with lensing B-modes begins to limit experiments that search for primordial B-mode polarization, robust methods for delensing the CMB polarization sky are becoming increasingly important. We investigate in detail the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Blake D. Sherwin , Marcel Schmittfull

The ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments are susceptible to various instrumental errors, especially for $B$-mode measurements. The difference between the response of two polarized detectors, referred to as the beam…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Jiazheng Dou , Jiakang Han , Wen Zhao , Bin Hu