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Empirical estimates of the band power covariance matrix are commonly used in cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum analyses. While this approach easily captures correlations in the data, noise in the resulting covariance estimate…

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We present the application of a new method to compute the Wiener filter solution of large and complex data sets. Contrary to the iterative solvers usually employed in signal processing, our algorithm does not require the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-16 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

In image reconstruction, an accurate quantification of uncertainty is of great importance for informed decision making. Here, the Bayesian approach to inverse problems can be used: the image is represented through a random function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Jonas Latz , Aretha L. Teckentrup , Simon Urbainczyk

We study gradient inversion in the challenging single round averaged gradient SAG regime where per sample cues are entangled within a single batch mean gradient. We introduce MAGIA a momentum based adaptive correction on gradient inversion…

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The Fisher information matrix of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation power spectrum coefficients is a fundamental quantity that specifies the information content of a CMB experiment. In the most general case, its exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-30 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

To correctly analyse data sets from current microwave detection technology, one is forced to estimate the sky signal and experimental noise simultaneously. Given a time-ordered data set we propose a formalism and method for estimating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pedro G. Ferreira , Andrew H. Jaffe

An important application of next-generation wide-field radio interferometers is making high dynamic range maps of radio emission. Traditional deconvolution methods like CLEAN can give poor recovery of diffuse structure, prompting the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Katrine A. Glasscock , Philip Bull , Jacob Burba , Hugh Garsden , Michael J. Wilensky

We introduce Koenderink filters as novel tools for statistical cosmology. Amongst several promising applications, they provide a test for the Gaussianity of random fields. We focus on this application and present some preliminary results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Schmalzing

This paper presents a novel Bayesian strategy for the estimation of smooth signals corrupted by Gaussian noise. The method assumes a smooth evolution of a succession of continuous signals that can have a numerical or an analytical…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-12 Abderrahim Halimi , Gerald S. Buller , Steve McLaughlin , Paul Honeine

One of the main unsolved problems of cosmology is how to maximize the extraction of information from nonlinear data. If the data are nonlinear the usual approach is to employ a sequence of statistics (N-point statistics, counting statistics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Uros Seljak , Grigor Aslanyan , Yu Feng , Chirag Modi

We describe an algorithm for the extraction of the angular power spectrum of an intensity field, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), from interferometer data. This new method, based on the gridding of interferometer visibilities…

Missing values in covariates due to censoring by signal interference or lack of sensitivity in the measuring devices are common in industrial problems. We propose a full Bayesian solution to the prediction problem with an efficient Markov…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-21 Caroline Svahn , Mattias Villani

A hierarchical Bayesian approach that permits simultaneous inference for the regression coefficient matrix and the error precision (inverse covariance) matrix in the multivariate linear model is proposed. Assuming a natural ordering of the…

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We present a numerically cheap approximation to super-sample covariance (SSC) of large scale structure cosmological probes, first in the case of angular power spectra. It necessitates no new elements besides those used for the prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Fabien Lacasa , Julien Grain

Estimating the source parameters of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence(CBC) is a key analysis task in gravitational-wave astronomy. To deal with the increasing detection rate of CBC signals, optimizing the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Eunsub Lee , Soichiro Morisaki , Hideyuki Tagoshi

We study compressed sensing (CS) signal reconstruction problems where an input signal is measured via matrix multiplication under additive white Gaussian noise. Our signals are assumed to be stationary and ergodic, but the input statistics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Yanting Ma , Junan Zhu , Dror Baron

Based on realistic simulations, we propose an hybrid method to reconstruct the lensing potential power spectrum, directly on PLANCK-like CMB frequency maps. It implies using a large galactic mask and dealing with a strong inhomogeneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 S. Plaszczynski , A. Lavabre , L. Perotto , J. -L. Starck

This paper studies the achievable rates of Gaussian interference channels with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), when improper or circularly asymmetric complex Gaussian signaling is applied. For the Gaussian multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yong Zeng , Cenk M. Yetis , Erry Gunawan , Yong Liang Guan , Rui Zhang

We develop the tools necessary to assess the statistical significance of resonant features in the CMB correlation functions, combining power spectrum and bispectrum measurements. This significance is typically addressed by running a large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 P. Daniel Meerburg , Moritz Münchmeyer , Benjamin Wandelt