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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

We discuss the problem of CMB spectrum corruption during Galactic emission removing. A new technique of spatial--frequency data reduction is proposed. The technique gives us a possibility to avoid a spatial harmonics nonorthogonality. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Brukhanov , D. P. Skulachev , I. A. Strukov , T. V. Konkina

An improved method for subtracting contaminants from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) sky maps is presented, and used to estimate how well future experiments will be able to recover the primordial CMB fluctuations. We find that the naive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Max Tegmark , George Efstathiou

Cosmological Birefringence (CB) is a phenomenon, caused by parity violating modifications to electrodynamics, whereby the linear polarisation angle of light changes as photons traverse a vacuum. It is possible to use a number of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Joel Williams , Aditya Rotti , Richard Battye

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

We investigate the detectability of the primordial CMB polarization B-mode power spectrum on large scales in the presence of instrumental noise and realistic foreground contamination. We have worked out a method to estimate the errors on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Bonaldi , S. Ricciardi

We study a possibility of constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence with help of cosmic microwave background polarisation data in the presence of polarisation angle miscalibration without relying on any assumptions about the Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Baptiste Jost , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Time-resolved observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer a powerful probe of time-dependent cosmological signals, such as a stochastic gravitational wave background passing through Earth, which imprints a time-varying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yilun Guan

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

Reaching the sufficient sensitivity to detect primordial B-modes requires modern CMB polarisation experiments to rely on new technologies, necessary for the deployment of arrays thousands of detectors with a broad frequency coverage and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Clara Vergès , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial in cosmology, because any proposed model of the universe must account for the features of this radiation. Of all CMB measurements that the scientific community has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Claudia Nones , Stefanos Marnieros , Alain Benoit , Laurent Bergé , Aurelien Bideau , Philippe Camus , Louis Dumoulin , Alessandro Monfardini , Olivier Rigaut

Hyperspectral imaging has become a significant source of valuable data for astronomers over the past decades. Current instrumental and observing time constraints allow direct acquisition of multispectral images, with high spatial but low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Claire Guilloteau , Thomas Oberlin , Olivier Berné , Nicolas Dobigeon

Foreground contamination is the fundamental hindrance to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signals and its separation from it represents a fundamental question in Cosmology. One of the most popular algorithm used to disentangle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-27 R. Vio , P. Andreani

We propose the implementation of an imaging telescope in combination with an inter-frequency calibrator to measure the spectral shape of the microwave sky by exploiting the differences in the sky intensity between multiple pairs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We have developed a fast, accurate and generally applicable method for inferring the power spectrum and its uncertainties from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of inhomogeneous and correlated noise. For maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. Doré , L. Knox , A. Peel

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

We present a new blind formulation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) inference problem. The approach relies on a phenomenological model of the multi-frequency microwave sky without the need for physical models of the individual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Flavien Vansyngel , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jean-François Cardoso , Karim Benabed

The cosmic microwave background $B$-mode signal is potentially weaker than the diffuse Galactic foregrounds over most of the sky at any frequency. A common method of separating the CMB from these foregrounds is via pixel-based…

The frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relatively untapped source of data which can allow us to peer beyond the surface of last scattering. Small deviations away from a perfect blackbody shape will encode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bryce Cyr

QUBIC is a ground-based experiment, currently under construction, that uses the novel bolometric interferometry technology. It is dedicated to measure the primordial B-modes of CMB. As a bolometric interferometer, QUBIC has high sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Mikhail Stolpovskiy