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Maps of cosmic microwave background (CMB) are extracted from multi-frequency observations using a variety of cleaning procedures. However, in regions of strong microwave emission, particularly in the galactic plane from our own galaxy Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Sanjeet K. Patel , Pavan K. Aluri , Pranati K. Rath , Pramoda K. Samal

We present a novel method for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground removal based on deep learning techniques. This method employs a Transformer model, referred to as \texttt{TCMB}, which is specifically designed to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li

Precise estimation of cosmological parameters from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains a central goal of modern cosmology and a key test of inflationary physics. However, this task is fundamentally limited by strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Larissa Santos , Camila P. Novaes , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Carlo Baccigalupi

In this article we present a formalism to incorporate the partial-sky maps to the Gibbs ILC algorithm to estimate the joint posterior density of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and the theoretical CMB angular power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Vipin Sudevan , Ujjal Purkayastha , Rajib Saha

Accurate measurements of angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation has lead to marked improvement in the estimates of different cosmological parameters. This has required removal of foreground contamination as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajib Saha , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep

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

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

Ever since Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal is being measured by various satellites based observations with increasing experimental accuracies there has been a parallel increase in the demand for a CMB reconstruction technique which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-21 Ujjal Purkayastha , Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

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

Galactic foregrounds are the main obstacle to observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization. In addition to obscuring the inflationary $B$-mode signal by several orders of magnitude, Galactic foregrounds have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Mathieu Remazeilles , Aditya Rotti , Jens Chluba

Studies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) are often limited by foreground contamination. Foreground cleaning is performed either in harmonic or pixel space after data cuts have excluded sky areas of strong contamination. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Hayley C. Nofi , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Laura Herold , J. L. Weiland

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

High fidelity separation of astrophysical foreground contributions from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal has been recognized as one of the main challenges of modern CMB data analysis, and one which needs to be addressed in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Magdy Morshed , Arianna Rizzieri , Clément Leloup , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

In the context of maximum-likelihood parametric component separation for next-generation full-sky CMB polarization experiments, we study the impact of fitting different spectral parameters of Galactic foregrounds in distinct subsets of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Arianna Rizzieri , Clément Leloup , Josquin Errard , Davide Poletti

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

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

We present the application of the Fast Independent Component Analysis ({\ica}) technique for blind component separation to polarized astrophysical emission. We study how the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarized signal, consisting of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 C. Baccigalupi , F. Perrotta , G. De Zotti , G. F. Smoot , C. Burigana , D. Maino , L. Bedini , E. Salerno

We investigate the extent to which foreground cleaned CMB maps can be used to estimate the cosmological parameters at small scales. We use the SMICA method, a blind separation technique which works directly at the spectral level. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 C. Umiltà , J. F. Cardoso , K. Benabed , M. Le Jeune

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

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