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Improved Models for Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies: New Constraints on the IR Galaxy Population

The power spectrum of cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies is sensitive to the connection between star formation and dark matter halos over the entire cosmic star formation history. Here we develop a model that associates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Cien Shang , Zoltán Haiman , Lloyd Knox , S. Peng Oh

Planck 2015 results. X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps

Planck has mapped the microwave sky in nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz in temperature and seven bands between 30 and 353 GHz in polarization. In this paper we consider the problem of diffuse astrophysical component separation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Planck Collaboration , R. Adam , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. I. R. Alves , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , J. Fergusson , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , P. McGehee , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , E. Orlando , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , E. P. S. Shellard , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , A. W. Strong , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Wilkinson , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Planck LFI: Comparison Between Galaxy Straylight Contamination and other Systematic Effects

The straylight contamination due to the Galactic emission (GSC, Galaxy Straylight Contamination) entering at large angles from the antenna centre direction may be one of the most critical sources of systematic effects in observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Burigana , D. Maino , K. M. Górski , N. Mandolesi , M. Bersanelli , F. Villa , L. Valenziano , B. D. Wandelt , M. Maltoni , E. Hivon

QUIJOTE scientific results -- VIII. Diffuse polarized foregrounds from component separation with QUIJOTE-MFI

We derive linearly polarized astrophysical component maps in the Northern Sky from the QUIJOTE-MFI data at 11 and 13 GHz in combination with the WMAP K and Ka bands (23 and 33 GHz) and all Planck polarized channels (30-353 GHz), using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-13 E. de la Hoz , R. B. Barreiro , P. Vielva , E. Martínez-González , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Casaponsa , F. Guidi , M. Ashdown , R. T. Génova-Santos , E. Artal , F. J. Casas , R. Fernández-Cobos , M. Fernández-Torreiro , D. Herranz , R. J. Hoyland , A. N. Lasenby , M. López-Caniego , C. H. López-Caraballo , M. W. Peel , L. Piccirillo , F. Poidevin , R. Rebolo , B. Ruiz-Granados , D. Tramonte , F. Vansyngel , R. A. Watson

The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

Using the Cosmic Background Imager, a 13-element interferometer array operating in the 26-36 GHz frequency band, we have observed 40 sq deg of sky in three pairs of fields, each ~ 145 x 165 arcmin, using overlapping pointings (mosaicing).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 T. J. Pearson , B. S. Mason , A. C. S. Readhead , M. C. Shepherd , J. L. Sievers , P. S. Udomprasert , J. K. Cartwright , A. J. Farmer , S. Padin , S. T. Myers , J. R. Bond , C. R. Contaldi , U. -L. Pen , S. Prunet , D. Pogosyan , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Kovac , E. M. Leitch , C. Pryke , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , P. Altamirano , L. Bronfman , S. Casassus , J. May , M. Joy

Correlations in the Far Infrared Background

We compute the expected angular power spectrum of the cosmic Far Infrared Background (FIRB). We find that the signal due to source correlations dominates the shot--noise for $\ell \la 1000$ and results in anisotropies with rms amplitudes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zoltan Haiman , Lloyd Knox

Planck intermediate results. XIV. Dust emission at millimetre wavelengths in the Galactic plane

We use Planck HFI data combined with ancillary radio data to study the emissivity index of the interstellar dust emission in the frequency range 10 - 353 GHz, or 3 - 0.8 mm, in the Galactic plane. We analyse the region l=20 degr - 44 degr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-13 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. I. R. Alves , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. Bobin , A. Bonaldi , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Chamballu , H. C. Chiang , L. -Y Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , F. Couchot , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , G. Giardino , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , F. K. Hansen , D. Harrison , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , C. R. Lawrence , R. Leonardi , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , M. Peel , O. Perdereau , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , G. Savini , D. Scott , L. D. Spencer , J. -L. Starck , V. Stolyarov , F. Sureau , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

CMB Shadows: The Effect of Interstellar Extinction on Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization and Temperature Anisotropy

We evaluate the degradation of the accuracy of the component separation between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and foreground components caused by neglect of absorption of the monopole component of the CMB by the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Masashi Nashimoto , Makoto Hattori , Yuji Chinone

A Broadband Study of Galactic Dust Emission

We have combined infrared data with HI, H2 and HII surveys in order to spatially decompose the observed dust emission into components associated with different phases of the gas. An inversion technique is applied. For the decomposition, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Paladini , L. Montier , M. Giard , J. -P. Bernard , T. Dame , S. Ito , J. Macias-Perez

Faraday Rotation as a Diagnostic of Galactic Foreground Contamination of CMB Maps

We present a diagnostic test of possible Galactic contamination of cosmic microwave background sky maps designed to provide an independent check on the methods used to compile these maps. The method involves a non-parametric measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Dineen , Peter Coles

The clustering of merging star-forming haloes: dust emission as high frequency arcminute CMB foreground

Future observations of CMB anisotropies will be able to probe high multipole regions of the angular power spectrum, corresponding to a resolution of a few arcminutes. Dust emission from merging haloes is one of the foregrounds that will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Mattia Righi , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Rashid Sunyaev

New Constraints on variations of the fine structure constant from CMB anisotropies

We demonstrate that recent measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy made by the ACBAR, QUAD and BICEP experiments substantially improve the cosmological constraints on possible variations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Eloisa Menegoni , Silvia Galli , James Bartlett , Carlos J. A. P. Martins , Alessandro Melchiorri

Correlations in the (Sub)millimeter background from ACTxBLAST

We present measurements of the auto- and cross-frequency correlation power spectra of the cosmic (sub)millimeter background at: 250, 350, and 500 um (1200, 860, and 600 GHz) from observations made with the Balloon-borne Large Aperture…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Amir Hajian , Marco P. Viero , Graeme Addison , Paula Aguirre , John William Appel , Nick Battaglia , James J. Bock , J. Richard Bond , Sudeep Das , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , John P. Hughes , Joseph W. Fowler , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renee Hlozek , Kent D. Irwin , Jeff Klein , Arthur Kosowsky , Yen-Ting Lin , Tobias A. Marriage , Danica Marsden , Gaelen Marsden , Felipe Menanteau , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Kavilan Moodley , Calvin B. Netterfield , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Lucas Parker , Douglas Scott , Neelima Sehgal , Jon Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel S. Swetz , Eric R. Switzer , Robert Thornton , Ed Wollack

Cosmoglobe DR1 results. II. Constraints on isotropic cosmic birefringence from reprocessed WMAP and Planck LFI data

Cosmic birefringence is a parity-violating effect that might have rotated the plane of linearly polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by an angle $\beta$ since its emission. This has recently been measured to be non-zero…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 J. R. Eskilt , D. J. Watts , R. Aurlien , A. Basyrov , M. Bersanelli , M. Brilenkov , L. P. L. Colombo , H. K. Eriksen , K. S. F. Fornazier , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , E. Gjerløw , B. Hensley , L. T. Hergt , D. Herman , H. T. Ihle , K. Lee , J. G. S. Lunde , S. K. Nerval , S. Paradiso , S. K. Patel , F. Rahman , M. Regnier , M. San , S. Sanyal , N. -O. Stutzer , H. Thommesen , A. Verma , I. K. Wehus , Y. Zhou

HerMES: Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies and the Clustering of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies

We present measurements of the auto- and cross-frequency power spectra of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) at 250, 350, and 500um (1200, 860, and 600 GHz) from observations totaling ~ 70 deg^2 made with the SPIRE instrument aboard the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. P. Viero , L. Wang , M. Zemcov , G. Addison , A. Amblard , V. Arumugam , H. Aussel , M. Bethermin , J. Bock , A. Boselli , V. Buat , D. Burgarella , C. M. Casey , D. L. Clements , A. Conley , L. Conversi , A. Cooray , G. De Zotti , C. D. Dowell , D. Farrah , A. Franceschini , J. Glenn , M. Griffin , E. Hatziminaoglou , S. Heinis , E. Ibar , R. J. Ivision , G. Lagache , L. Levenson , L. Marchetti , G. Marsden , H. T. Nguyen , B. O'Halloran , S. J. Oliver , A. Omont , M. J. Page , A. Papageorgiou , C. P. Peason , I. Perez-Fournon , M. Pohlen , D. Rigopoulou , I. G. Roseboom , M. Rowan-Robinson , D. Scott , N. Seymour , B. Schulz , D. L. Shupe , A. J. Smith , M. Symeonidis , M. Vaccari , I. Valtchanov , J. D. Vieira , J. Wardlow , C. K. Xu

Foreground contributions to the Cosmic Microwave Background

A detailed search has been made for evidence of foreground contributions to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) WMAP, such foregrounds being related to our Galaxy. We find remarkable results. On the largest angular scales we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tadeusz Wibig , Arnold W. Wolfendale

Directionality in the WMAP Polarization Data

Polarization is the next frontier of CMB analysis, but its signal is dominated over much of the sky by foregrounds which must be carefully removed. To determine the efficacy of this cleaning it is necessary to have sensitive tests for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-06 Duncan Hanson , Douglas Scott , Emory F. Bunn

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New Bounds on Anisotropies of CMB Polarization Rotation and Implications for Axion-Like Particles and Primordial Magnetic Fields

We present the strongest constraints to date on anisotropies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization rotation derived from 150 GHz data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array CMB experiments up to and including the 2014 observing season…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-21 Keck Array , BICEP2 Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , B. P. Crill , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , T. St. Germaine , T. Ghosh , J. Grayson , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , N. A. Larsen , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , K. W. Yoon

Do We Have Sufficient Knowledge of the Galactic Foreground Emission in Cosmic Microwave Background Science?

Galactic foreground emission plays a key role in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science, particularly for detecting primordial gravitational waves. A well-known lesson is the ``dust wave'' identified by BICEP2 in 2014, which was ruled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jia-Rui Li , Peibo Yuan , Yi-Fu Cai , Hao Liu

Estimating the spectral indices of correlated astrophysical foregrounds by a second-order statistical approach

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