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Non-parametric maximum likelihood component separation for CMB polarization data

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 $B$…

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A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr of observations collected through 2024 with a variable-delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Yunyang Li , Joseph Eimer , John Appel , Charles Bennett , Michael Brewer , Sarah Marie Bruno , Ricardo Bustos , Carol Chan , David Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Jullianna Denes Couto , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dunner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , John Karakla , Tobias Marriage , Nathan Miller , Carolina Morales Perez , Lucas Parker , Matthew Petroff , Rodrigo Reeves , Karwan Rostem , Caleigh Ryan , Rui Shi , Koji Shukawa , Deniz Valle , Duncan Watts , J. Weiland , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Lingzhen Zeng

Reconstructing Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters in future CMB experiments

We present a new method for component separation aimed to extract Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) galaxy clusters from multifrequency maps of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. This method is designed to recover non-Gaussian, spatially…

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Recovering Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Signals with Machine Learning

Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. However, the weak B-mode signal is overshadowed by several Galactic polarized emissions, such as thermal dust emission…

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Separation of foregrounds from cosmic microwave background observations with the MAP satellite

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…

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Polarized CMB recovery with sparse component separation

The polarization modes of the cosmological microwave background are an invaluable source of information for cosmology, and a unique window to probe the energy scale of inflation. Extracting such information from microwave surveys requires…

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Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity

The Planck full mission cosmic microwave background(CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps are analysed to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity(NG). Using three classes of optimal bispectrum estimators - separable…

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Planck 2015 results. XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters

This paper presents the Planck 2015 likelihoods, statistical descriptions of the 2-point correlations of CMB data, using the hybrid approach employed previously: pixel-based at $\ell<30$ and a Gaussian approximation to the distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Désert , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , K. Dolag , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , J. Fergusson , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , C. Gauthier , M. Gerbino , M. Giard , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , F. K. Hansen , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Knoche , L. Knox , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Lilley , M. Linden-Vørnle , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , M. Migliaccio , M. Millea , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , S. Mottet , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , A. Narimani , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , P. Serra , L. D. Spencer , M. Spinelli , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , F. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Using hybrid GPU/CPU kernel splitting to accelerate spherical convolutions

We present a general method for accelerating by more than an order of magnitude the convolution of pixelated functions on the sphere with a radially-symmetric kernel. Our method splits the kernel into a compact real-space component and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Franz Elsner

A New Look at Image Reconstruction of COMPTEL 1.8 MeV Data

Deconvolving COMPTEL gamma-ray data into images presents a major methodological challenge. We developed a new algorithm called Multiresolution Regularized Expectation Maximization (MREM), which explicitly accounts for spatial correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Knodlseder , D. Dixon , R. Diehl , U. Oberlack , P. von Ballmoos , H. Bloemen , W. Hermsen , A. Iyudin , J. Ryan , V. Schonfelder

Effect of component separation on the temperature distribution of the CMB

We present a study of the effect of component separation on the recovered cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature distribution, considering Gaussian and non-Gaussian input CMB maps. First, we extract the CMB component from simulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. B. Barreiro , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Vielva , M. P. Hobson

Extracting cosmological signals from foregrounds in deep mm maps of the sky

The high Galactic latitude sky at millimeter and submm wavelengths contains significant cosmological information about the early Universe (in terms of the cosmic microwave background) but also the process of structure formation in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-16 Luca Conversi , Paola Fiadino , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi

Preparation to the CMB Planck analysis : contamination due to the polarized galactic emission

The Planck satellite experiment, which was launched the 14th of may 2009, will give an accurate measurement of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. This measurement is polluted by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-20 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez

A hybrid map-$C_\ell$ component separation method for primordial CMB $B$-mode searches

The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detecting the elusive signal from primordial tensor fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Susanna Azzoni , David Alonso , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Josquin Errard , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff

Using peak distribution of the cosmic microwave background for MAP and Planck data analysis: formalism and simulations

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

Analysis Issues for Large CMB Data Sets

Multi-frequency, high resolution, full sky measurements of the anisotropy in both temperature and polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation are the goals of the satellite missions MAP (NASA) and Planck (ESA). The ultimate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Gorski , E. Hivon , B. D. Wandelt

The Low Frequency Instrument in the ESA Planck mission

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allow high precision observation of the cosmic plasma at redshift z~1100. After the success of the NASA satellite COBE, that in 1992 provided the first detection of the CMB anisotropy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mennella , M. Bersanelli , B. Cappellini , D. Maino , P. Platania , S. Garavaglia , R. C. Butler , N. Mandolesi F. Pasian , O. D'arcangelo , A. Simonetto , C. Sozzi

Lensing reconstruction from PLANCK sky maps: inhomogeneous noise

We discuss the effects of inhomogeneous sky-coverage on CMB lens reconstruction, focusing on application to the recently launched Planck satellite. We discuss the mean-field which is induced by noise inhomogeneities, as well as three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-21 Duncan Hanson , Graca Rocha , Krzysztof Gorski

Detection of separatrices and chaotic seas based on orbit amplitudes

The Maximum Eccentricity Method (MEM) is a standard tool for the analysis of planetary systems and their stability. The method amounts to estimating the maximal stretch of orbits over sampled domains of initial conditions. The present paper…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Jerome Daquin , Carolina Charalambous

Determining thermal dust emission from Planck HFI data using a sparse, parametric technique

Context: The Planck data releases have provided the community with sub-millimetre and radio observations of the full-sky at unprecedented resolutions. We make use of the Planck 353, 545 and 857 GHz maps alongside the IRAS 3000 GHz map.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Melis O. Irfan , Jérôme Bobin , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Isabelle Grenier