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Accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy call for high precision and reliability of the in-flight calibration. For extended surveys the CMB dipole provides an excellent calibration source at frequencies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Cappellini , D. Maino , G. Albetti , P. Platania , R. Paladini , A. Mennella , M. Bersanelli

We study Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data using the energy density inhomogeneity power spectrum generated by quantum fluctuations during an early epoch of inflation in the non-flat $\Lambda$CDM model. Unlike…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Junpei Ooba , Bharat Ratra , Naoshi Sugiyama

We introduce a new technique to detect the discrete temperature steps that cosmic strings might have left in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy map. The technique provides a validity test on the pattern search of cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Jeong , G. F. Smoot

The Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope (BEAST) is a 2.2m off-axis telescope with an 8 element mixed Q (38-45GHz) and Ka (26-36GHz) band focal plane, designed for balloon borne and ground based studies of the Cosmic Microwave…

We present two novel methods for the estimation of the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We assume an absolute CMB experiment with arbitrary asymmetric beams and arbitrary sky coverage. The methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Elina Keihänen , Kimmo Kiiveri , Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Martin Reinecke

We compare the latest observations of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropies with the theoretical predictions of the standard scenario of structure formation. Assuming a primordial power spectrum of adiabatic perturbations we found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Melchiorri , Carolina Odman

We use quadratic maximum-likelihood (QML) estimators to constrain models with Gaussian but statistically anisotropic Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations, using CMB maps with realistic sky-coverage and instrumental noise. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-06 Duncan Hanson , Antony Lewis

Recent measurements of the temperature field of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide tantalising evidence for violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI) that constitutes a fundamental tenet of contemporary cosmology. CMB space based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Suvodip Mukherjee , Tarun Souradeep

We explore the cosmological implications of 7 deep survey fields observed at the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) Array with 30 GHz receivers. These observations probe the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy on scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yen-Ting Lin , Joseph J. Mohr

The low quadrupole of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), measured by COBE and confirmed by WMAP, has generated much discussion recently. We point out that the well-known correlation between temperature and polarization anisotropies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 Olivier Doré , Gilbert P. Holder , Abraham Loeb

The detection of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background on arcminute scales by the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) provides us with our first measurement of the damping tail and closes one chapter in the CMB story. We now have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Martin White

We have computed an estimate of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) induced by cosmic strings on angular scales $>~ 15'$, using a numerical simulation of a cosmic string network; and decomposed this pattern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 B. Allen , R. R. Caldwell , S. Dodelson , L. Knox , E. P. S. Shellard , A. Stebbins

We estimate the contribution of extragalactic radio sources to fluctuations in sky temperature over the range of frequencies (10-300 GHz) used for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. CMB anisotropy observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Sokasian , Eric Gawiser , George F. Smoot

We calculate temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) for several initial power spectra of density perturbations with a built-in scale suggested by recent optical data on the spatial distribution of rich clusters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Einasto , S. Gottlöber , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky

The CMB anisotropy on arc second range is examined to test the power spectrum of perturbations in the small scale region and, in particular, to estimate the mass of dominant dark matter particles. It is shown that for the simplest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrei G. Doroshkevich , Raffaella Schneider

We present a determination of the cosmic microwave background dipole amplitude and direction from the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) first year of data. Data from the six DMR channels are consistent with a Doppler-shifted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Kogut , C. Lineweaver , G. F. Smoot , C. L. Bennett , A. Banday

We review the first science results from the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR); a multifrequency millimeter-wave receiver optimized for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)…

We report on observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the January 2003 flight of Boomerang . These results are derived from 195 hours of observation with four 145 GHz Polarization Sensitive Bolometer (PSB)…