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One of the main obstacles for extracting the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from observations in the mm/sub-mm range is the foreground contamination by emission from Galactic component: mainly synchrotron, free-free, and thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-07 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

One of the main obstacles in extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal from observations in the mm-submm range is the foreground contamination by emission from galactic components: mainly synchrotron, free-free and thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen , H. E. Jorgensen

In this paper we present a new method to estimate a foreground cleaned Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) map at a resolution of $1^\circ$ by minimizing the non-Gaussian properties of the cleaned map which arise dominantly due to diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rajib Saha

It has been pointed out that the spurious Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarization signals caused by the absorption of the CMB monopole component due to the Galactic interstellar matter, called the CMB shadow, degrade the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-05 Tamaki Murokoshi , Yuji Chinone , Masashi Nashimoto , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Makoto Hattori

Reconstructed maps of the lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will play a major role in precision cosmology in coming years. CMB lensing maps will enable calibration of the masses of high-redshift galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill

Astrophysical foreground substraction is crucial to retrieve the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization out of the observed data. Recent efforts have been carried out towards the development of a minimally informed component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Clément Leloup , Magdy Morshed , Arianna Rizzieri

We present a new approach to foreground removal for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps. Rather than relying on prior knowledge about the foreground components, we first extract the necessary information about them directly from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. K. Hansen , A. J. Banday , H. K. Eriksen , K. M. Gorski , P. B. Lilje

We extend the internal template foreground removal method by accounting for spatially varying spectral parameters such as the spectral indices of synchrotron and dust emission and the dust temperature. As the previous algorithm had to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroaki Kanai , Nobuhiko Katayama , Eiichiro Komatsu

We report an improved technique for diffuse foreground minimization from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps using a new multi-phase iterative internal-linear-combination (ILC) approach in harmonic space. The new procedure consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Vipin Sudevan , Pavan K. Aluri , Sarvesh Kumar Yadav , Rajib Saha , Tarun Souradeep

Recent CMB observations have resulted in very precise observational data. A robust and reliable CMB reconstruction technique can lead to efficient estimation of the cosmological parameters. We demonstrate the performance of our methodology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Albin Joseph , Ujjal Purkayastha , Rajib Saha

We describe a new map-making code for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. It implements fast algorithms for convolution and transpose convolution of two functions on the sphere (Wandelt & G\'{o}rski 2001). Our code can account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charmaine Armitage , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Component separation is the process with which emission sources in astrophysical maps are generally extracted by taking multi-frequency information into account. It is crucial to develop more reliable methods for component separation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , C. Baccigalupi , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , E. Goitia , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sánchez , F. J. de Cos

We are presenting an Internal Linear Combination (ILC) CMB map, in which the foreground is reduced through harmonic variance minimization. We have derived our method by converting a general form of pixel-space approach into spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

The presence of astrophysical emissions in microwave observations forces us to perform component separation to extract the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal. However, even in the most optimistic cases, there are still strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

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

A promising way to measure the distribution of matter on small scales (k ~ 10 hMpc^-1) is to use gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). CMB-HD, a proposed high-resolution, low-noise millimeter survey over half the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Dongwon Han , Neelima Sehgal

We present a novel technique for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground subtraction based on the framework of blind source separation. Inspired by previous work incorporating local variation to Generalized Morphological Component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-28 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Max Hopkins , Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

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 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

Analysis and denoising of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps are performed using wavelet multiresolution techniques. The method is tested on $12^{\circ}.8\times 12^{\circ}.8$ maps with resolution resembling the experimental one expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Sanz , F. Argueso , L. Cayon , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , R. B. Barreiro , L. Toffolatti

The WMAP satellite has made available high quality maps of the sky in five frequency bands ranging from 22 to 94 GHz, with the main scientific objective of studying the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). These maps,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Delabrouille , J. -F. Cardoso , M. Le Jeune , M. Betoule , G. Fay , F. Guilloux