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I develop a method for assessing the ability of an instrument, coupled with an observing strategy, to measure the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It allows for efficient calculation of expected parameter…

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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a fundamental observational tool in modern cosmology. The linear polarization of the CMB provides a crucial observational tool for exploring new physics, including the inflationary paradigm and…

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The observation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies is one of the key probes of physical cosmology. The weak nature of this signal has driven the construction of increasingly complex and sensitive experiments observing the sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Giulio Fabbian , Julien Peloton

In this study, we apply the Analytical method of Blind Separation (ABS) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from foregrounds to estimate the CMB temperature power spectrum from multi-frequency microwave maps. We test the robustness of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-21 Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Yuxi Zhao , Pengjie Zhang , Larissa Santos , Jun Zhang

Spherical Harmonics ROOM), an open-source Python library for room acoustics simulation using Ambisonics, available at https://github.com/Yhonatangayer/shroom and installable via \texttt{pip install pyshroom}. \textbf{shroom} projects…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yhonatan Gayer

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

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

Results are reported from the first flight of a new balloon-borne instrument, BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement), designed to search for cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. The instrument uses a cryogenic differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Tucker , H. P. Gush , M. Halpern , I. Shinkoda , W. Towlson

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

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

We present candl, an automatically differentiable python likelihood for analysing cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum measurements. candl is powered by JAX, which makes it fast and easy to calculate derivatives of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 L. Balkenhol , C. Trendafilova , K. Benabed , S. Galli

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

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

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

This paper presents a novel approach to constrain the $\mu$- and y- distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) using the COBE/FIRAS data. The analysis draws from the concept of blackbody radiation inversion (BRI), a mathematical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Somita Dhal , Koustav Konar , R. K. Paul

The Planck satellite will map the full sky at nine frequencies from 30 to 857 GHz. The CMB intensity and polarization that are its prime targets are contaminated by foreground emission. The goal of this paper is to compare proposed methods…

We evaluate the expected level of foreground contamination to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarised radiation, focusing on the diffuse emission from our own Galaxy. In particular, we perform a first attempt to simulate an all sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Carlo Baccigalupi

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

Mitigation of the impact of foreground contributions to measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization is a crucial step in modern CMB data analysis and is of particular importance for a detection of large-scale CMB $B$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Clément Leloup , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

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