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We present new measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the final season of the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP). The data set was obtained in winter 2004-2005 with the 7 m antenna in Crawford…

We present here a new algorithm for the fast computation of N-point correlation functions in large astronomical data sets. The algorithm is based on kdtrees which are decorated with cached sufficient statistics thus allowing for orders of…

We present the first tests of a new method, the Correlated Component Analysis (CCA) based on second-order statistics, to estimate the mixing matrix, a key ingredient to separate astrophysical foregrounds superimposed to the Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-26 A. Bonaldi , L. Bedini , E. Salerno , C. Baccigalupi , G. De Zotti

CMB polarization signal may be decomposed into gradient-like (E) and curl-like (B) mode. We have investigated E/B decomposition in pixel space. We find E/B mixing due to incomplete sky is localized in pixel-space, and negligible in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-22 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky

Multiply connected space sections of the universe on a scale smaller than the horizon size can leave an imprint on cosmic microwave background polarization maps, in such a way that the so-called ``circles-in-the-sky'' method can be used to…

We present the three-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering using measurements of the angular correlation function from the second incremental release of the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The angular positions of galaxies out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 B. Allgood , G. Blumenthal , J. R. Primack

We present several diverse applications of the spherical fast convolution method suggested by Wandelt and Gorski (2001), which is useful for studies of telescope optical properties and for construction of shaped filters for analysis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-18 K. M. Huffenberger , I. J. O'Dwyer , K. M. Gorski , B. D. Wandelt

We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) {\it polarization} data, and the cosmic shear field from galaxy shapes. This measurement is made using…

We explore a systematic approach to the analysis of primordial non-Gaussianity using fluctuations in temperature and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Following Munshi & Heavens (2009), we define a set of power-spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens , Joseph Smidt

The cosmic infrared background (CIB) is slightly polarized. Polarization directions of individual galaxies could be aligned with tidal fields around galaxies, resulting in nonzero CIB polarization. We use a linear intrinsic alignment model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

We present a method of subtracting the foreground contamination for the measurement of CMB polarization. We calculate the resultant errors on CMB polarization and temperature-polarization cross correlation power spectra for the high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Prunet , Shiv K. Sethi , Francois R. Bouchet

We revisit the classification of polarization observables of the cosmic microwave background. There exists a unified approach to the $3 \times 3$ density matrix by which intensity, linear and circular polarization are treated on an equal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Ralston , Pankaj Jain

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

The integral polarization of spiral galaxies in the radio band has been proposed as a new tracer of the intrinsic galaxy shape that augments lensing shear measurements. We revisit the method of shear estimation in this context. We introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Liang Dai , Junwu Huang , Weichen Winston Yin , Rui Zhou , Simone Ferraro

We develop a method for estimating the shear power spectra from weak lensing observations and test it on simulated data. Our method describes the shear field in terms of angular power spectra and cross correlation of the two shear modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Martin White

We develop a method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum, P(k), using both temperature and polarisation data from the joint analysis of a number of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations. The method is an extension of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Gavin Nicholson , Carlo R. Contaldi

X-ray polarimetric measurements are based on studying the distribution of the directions of scattered photons or photoelectrons and on the search of a sinusoidal modulation with a period of {\pi}. We developed two tools for investigating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Enrico Massaro , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta

If the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is rotated in a frequency-independent manner as it propagates from the surface of last scatter, it may introduce a B-mode polarization. Here I show that measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-08 Marc Kamionkowski