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Aims. To investigate the performance of a deconvolution map-making algorithm for an experiment with a circular scanning strategy, specifically in this case for the analysis of Planck data, and to quantify the effects of making maps using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. L. Harrison , F. van Leeuwen , M. A. J. Ashdown

We present an analysis of the effects of beam deconvolution on noise properties in CMB measurements. The analysis is built around the artDeco beam deconvolver code. We derive a low-resolution noise covariance matrix that describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 E. Keihänen , K. Kiiveri , V. Lindholm , M. Reinecke , A. -S. Suur-Uski

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

We revisit the impact of finite time responses of bolometric detectors used for deep observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Until now, bolometer transfer functions have been accounted for through a two-step procedure by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 A. Basyrov , N. O. Stutzer , J. G. S. Lunde , H. K. Eriksen , E. Gjerløw , D. J. Watts , I. K. Wehus

We describe a new map-making code for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. It implements fast algorithms for convolution and transpose convolution of two functions on the sphere (Wandelt & G\'{o}rski 2001). Our code can account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charmaine Armitage , Benjamin D. Wandelt

This paper is concerned with experiments which measure CMB anisotropies on small angular scales. A certain coverage, a beam structure and a level of uncorrelated noise define each experiment. We focus our atention on the reversion of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. V. Arnau , D. Saez

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 update the search for features, due to transient reductions in inflaton's speed of sound, in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular power spectrum using Planck 2018 temperature, polarization and lensing data. We develop a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Jesús Torrado , Ana Achúcarro

Over the past decade, the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard technique used to reconstruct the CMB lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro

We present a new map-making method for CMB measurements. The method is based on the destriping technique, but it also utilizes information about the noise spectrum. The low-frequency component of the instrument noise stream is modelled as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Keihanen , H. Kurki-Suonio , T. Poutanen

Extraction of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) angular power spectrum is a challenging task for current and future CMB experiments due to the large data sets involved. Here we describe an implementation of MASTER (Monte carlo Apodised…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Poutanen , D. Maino , H. Kurki-Suonio , E. Keihanen , E. Hivon

Destriping methods for constructing maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies have been investigated extensively in the literature. However, their error properties have been studied in less detail. Here we present an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Efstathiou

Extracting cosmological information from microwave sky observations requires accurate estimation of the underlying Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by removing foreground contamination, instrumental noise, and the effects of beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Obasho M , Shambhavi Jaiswal , Santanu Das , Krishna Mohan Parattu

Noise maps from CMB experiments are generally statistically anisotropic, due to scanning strategies, atmospheric conditions, or instrumental effects. Any mis-modeling of this complex noise can bias the reconstruction of the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Louis Legrand , Blake Sherwin , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron , Gerrit S. Farren

Gravitational lensing of the CMB is a valuable cosmological signal that correlates to tracers of large-scale structure and acts as a important source of confusion for primordial $B$-mode polarization. State-of-the-art lensing reconstruction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

We present a method for beam deconvolution for cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. The code takes as input the time-ordered data, along with the corresponding detector pointings and known beam shapes, and produces as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Elina Keihänen , Martin Reinecke

The Planck Collaboration made its final data release in 2018. In this paper we describe beam-deconvolution map products made from Planck LFI data using the artDeco deconvolution code to symmetrize the effective beam. The deconvolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 E. Keihänen , V. Lindholm , M. Lopez-Caniego , M. Maris , M. Reinecke , A. -S. Suur-Uski

In our previous study, we introduced a machine-learning technique, namely CMBFSCNN, for the removal of foreground contamination in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data. This method was successfully employed on actual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Guo-Jian Wang , Zirui Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

We use an iterative generalized least squares map-making algorithm, in conjunction with Monte Carlo techniques, to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , G. de Gasperis , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

We describe a maximum likelihood regularized beam deconvolution map-making algorithm for data from high resolution, polarization sensitive instruments, such as the Planck data set. The resulting algorithm, which we call PReBeaM, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charmaine Armitage-Caplan , Benjamin D. Wandelt
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