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The data from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments are becoming more complex with each new experiment. A consistent way of analysing these data sets is required so that direct comparison is possible between the various experimental…

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Cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation data obtained by different experiments contain, besides the desired signal, a superposition of microwave sky contributions. We present a fast and robust method, using a wavelet decomposition on…

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Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys are expected to provide valuable information about the primordial universe by creating maps of the mass along the line of sight. Traditional tools for creating these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Peikai Li , Ipek Ilayda Onur , Scott Dodelson , Shreyas Chaudhari

We present ABCMB, a differentiable Einstein-Boltzmann solver for the cosmic microwave background (CMB). ABCMB is a complete code capturing important effects to linear order in $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ cosmology. It computes the CMB power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Zilu Zhou , Cara Giovanetti , Hongwan Liu

The energy injected from dark matter annihilation and decay processes potentially raises the ionisation of the intergalactic medium and leaves visible footprints on the anisotropy maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 Zi-Xuan Zhang , Yi-Ming Wang , Junsong Cang , Zirui Zhang , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , Yu Gao , Hong Li

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 develop a new method to reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, $P(k)$, by using both the temperature and polarization spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We test this method using several mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Noriyuki Kogo , Misao Sasaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Primordial B-modes are a unique signature of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). However, the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia

Spectral distortion anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a new probe of the early Universe that can be accessed using traditional CMB imaging techniques. It is possible to compute the creation and evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Jens Chluba , Sara Evangelista , Tom Daman , Geoff Vasil

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

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) reaches homogeneity at relatively modest angular scales compared to the expectation of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model revealing an important challenge to the theoretical predictions. We analyze this…

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 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

Upcoming surveys will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing power spectrum in exquisite detail, allowing for strong constraints on the sum of neutrino masses among other cosmological parameters. Standard CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Delon Shen , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

The atmosphere is one of the most important contamination sources in the ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations. In this paper, we study three kinds of filters, which are polynomial filter, high-pass filter, and Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yi-Wen Wu , SiYu Li , Yang Liu , Zirui Zhang , Hao Liu , Hong Li

A milestone of modern cosmology was the prediction and serendipitous discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the radiation left over after decoupling from matter in the early evolutionary stages of the Universe. A prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. Noterdaeme , P. Petitjean , R. Srianand , C. Ledoux , S. Lopez

We compare multiple foreground-cleaning pipelines for estimating the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, using simulated maps of the planned CMB-S4 experiment within the context of the South Pole Deep Patch. To evaluate robustness, we analyze bias…

Internal Linear Combination (ILC) methods are some of the most widely used multi-frequency cleaning techniques employed in CMB data analysis. These methods reduce foregrounds by minimizing the total variance in the coadded map (subject to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Y. Sultan Abylkairov , Omar Darwish , J. Colin Hill , Blake D. Sherwin