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We characterize the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB)-lensing bispectrum which is one of the contributions to the three-point functions of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps in harmonic space. We show that the CIB-lensing bispectrum has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Curto , M. Tucci , M. Kunz , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

The detection of the primordial $B$-mode spectrum of the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal may provide a probe of inflation. However, observation of such a faint signal requires excellent control of systematic errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ata Karakci , Le Zhang , P. M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is a well-known probe of the non-Gaussianity of primordial perturbations. Just as the intervening large-scale structure modifies the CMB angular power spectrum through weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray , Devdeep Sarkar , Paolo Serra

Matter inhomogeneities along the line of sight deflect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons originating at the last scattering surface at redshift $z \sim 1100$. These distortions modify the pattern of CMB polarization. We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

Distribution estimation for noisy data via density deconvolution is a notoriously difficult problem for typical noise distributions like Gaussian. We develop a density deconvolution estimator based on quadratic programming (QP) that can…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-06 Ran Yang , Daniel Apley , Jeremy Staum , David Ruppert

We describe a Bayesian framework for estimating the time-domain noise covariance of CMB observations, typically parametrized in terms of a 1/f frequency profile. This framework is based on the Gibbs sampling algorithm, which allows for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. K. Wehus , S. K. Næss , H. K. Eriksen

We investigate the problem of reconstructing signals from a subsampled convolution of their modulated versions and a known filter. The problem is studied as applies to specific imaging systems relying on spatial phase modulation by randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

We develop a systematic and unified approach to estimate all possible secondary (i.e. non-primordial) nonlinear effects to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, named curve-of-sight integration approach. In this approach, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Naruko , Ryo Saito , Atsushi Taruya , Daisuke Yamauchi

This introductory guide aims to provide insight to new researchers in the field of cosmic microwave background (CMB) map analysis on best practices for several common procedures. We will discuss common map-modifying procedures such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Raelyn Marguerite Sullivan , Lukas Tobias Hergt , Douglas Scott

We generalize the concept of the ordinary skew-spectrum to probe the effect of non-Gaussianity on the morphology of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps in several domains: in real-space (where they are commonly known as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Renzi , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles

The aim of this project is to recover the CMB anisotropies maps in temperature and polarized intensity by means of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) which, after appropiate training, can remove the foregrounds from Planck and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 A. Quintana-Estellés , B. Ruiz-Granados , P. Ruiz-Lapuente

In this work, we formalize a new technique to investigate joint posterior density of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and its theoretical angular power spectrum given the observed data, using the global internal-linear-combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

The measurement and characterization of the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is key goal of the current and next generation of CMB experiments. We perform a case study of a three-channel balloon-borne CMB experiment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi , Samuel Leach , Amit P. S. Yadav

The purpose of this paper is to propose a non-iterative method for the inverse conductivity problem of recovering multiple small anomalies from the boundary measurements. When small anomalies are buried in a conducting object, the electric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Ok Kyun Lee , Hyeonbae Kang , Jong Chul Ye , Mikyoung Lim

The worst-case robust adaptive beamforming problem for general-rank signal model is considered. This is a nonconvex problem, and an approximate version of it (obtained by introducing a matrix decomposition on the presumed covariance matrix…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Yongwei Huang , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Zhi-Quan Luo

Beamforming is an essential step in the ultrasound image formation pipeline and has recently attracted growing interest. An important goal of beamforming is to increase the image spatial resolution, or in other words to narrow down the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Digital deblurring of images is an important problem that arises in multifrequency observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) where, because of the width of the point spread functions (PSF), maps at different frequencies suffer a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Vio , J. G. Nagy , L. Tenorio , P. Andreani , C. Baccigalupi , W. Wamsteker

Weak gravitational lensing changes the angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization in a characteristic way containing valuable information for cosmological parameter estimation and weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philipp Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We apply the iterative Expectation-Maximization algorithm (EM) to estimate the power spectrum of the CMB from multifrequency microwave maps. In addition, we are also able to provide a reconstruction of the CMB map. By assuming that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Martinez-Gonzalez , J. M. Diego , P. Vielva , J. Silk

In the era of high precision CMB measurements, systematic effects are beginning to limit the ability to extract subtler cosmological information. The non-circularity of the experimental beam has become progressively important as CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Tarun Souradeep , Sanjit Mitra , Anand Sengupta , Subharthi Ray , Rajib Saha