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Asymmetric beams can create significant bias in estimates of the power spectra from CMB experiments. With the temperature power spectrum many orders of magnitude stronger than the B-mode power spectrum any systematic error that couples the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Christopher G. R. Wallis , Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye , Giampaolo Pisano , Luca Lamagna

In this paper we demonstrate an efficient method for including both CMB temperature and polarisation data in optimal non-Gaussian estimators. The method relies on orthogonalising the multipoles of the temperature and polarisation maps and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 J. R. Fergusson

Map-making presents a significant computational challenge to the next generation of kilopixel CMB polarisation experiments. Years worth of time ordered data (TOD) from thousands of detectors will need to be compressed into maps of the T, Q…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-16 D. Sutton , B. R. Johnson , M. L. Brown , P. Cabella , P. G. Ferreira , K. M. Smith

This paper is one of a series describing the performance and accuracy of map-making codes as assessed by the Planck CTP working group. We compare the performance of multiple codes written by different groups for making polarized maps from…

We have constructed the first all-sky CMB temperature and polarization lensed maps based on a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation, the Millennium Simulation (MS). We have exploited the lensing potential map obtained using a…

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the key application scenarios for future 5G networks. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technique for the use in mMTC scenario. In this paper, we investigate NOMA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Evgeny Marshakov , Gleb Balitskiy , Kirill Andreev , Alexey Frolov

We study the possibility for constraining the topology of the Universe by means of the matched circles statistic applied to polarised cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy maps. The advantages of using the CMB polarisation maps in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 P. Bielewicz , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski

Global localization is a fundamental capability required for long-term and drift-free robot navigation. However, current methods fail to relocalize when faced with significantly different viewpoints. We present ROMAN (Robust Object Map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Mason B. Peterson , Yixuan Jia , Yulun Tian , Annika Thomas , Jonathan P. How

Mediation analysis for complex, non-Euclidean data, such as probability distributions, compositions, images, and networks, presents significant methodological challenges due to the inherent nonlinearity and geometric constraints of such…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-01 Wenxi Tan , Bing Li , Lingzhou Xue

A major problem in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy mapping, especially in a total-power mode, is the presence of low-frequency noise in the data streams. If unproperly processed, such low-frequency noise leads to striping in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Revenu , A. Kim , R. Ansari , F. Couchot , J. Delabrouille , J. Kaplan

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is encoded with exactly the same cosmic information as the CMB's temperature anistropy. However, polarization has the additional promise of accurately probing the reionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian Keating , Nathan Miller

We study destriping as a map-making method for temperature-and-polarization data for cosmic microwave background observations. We present a particular implementation of destriping and study the residual error in output maps, using simulated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 H. Kurki-Suonio , E. Keihanen , R. Keskitalo , T. Poutanen , A. -S. Sirvio , D. Maino , C. Burigana

We present a new model of the microwave sky in polarization that can be used to simulate data from CMB polarization experiments. We exploit the most recent results from the Planck satellite to provide an accurate description of the diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments using a team of mobile robots demands distributed perception and planning strategies to enable efficient and scalable performance. Ideally, each robot should update its map and plan its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arash Asgharivaskasi , Fritz Girke , Nikolay Atanasov

We present a formalism for analyzing a full-sky temperature and polarization map of the cosmic microwave background. Temperature maps are analyzed by expanding over the set of spherical harmonics to give multipole moments of the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Albert Stebbins

We report on the experimental implementation of a polarimeter based on a scheme known to be optimal for obtaining the polarization vector of ensembles of spin-1/2 quantum systems, and the alignment procedure for this polarimeter is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Ling , Soh Kee Pang , Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

We present new software to cross-match low-frequency radio catalogues: the Positional Update and Matching Algorithm (PUMA). PUMA combines a positional Bayesian probabilistic approach with spectral matching criteria, allowing for confusing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 J. L. B. Line , R. L. Webster , B. Pindor , D. A. Mitchell , C. M. Trott

The forthcoming Planck experiment will provide high sensitivity polarization measurements that will allow us to further tighten the f_NL bounds from the temperature data. Monte Carlo simulations of non-Gaussian CMB maps have been used as a…

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

We review advances in low temperature detector (LTD) arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiments, with a particular emphasis on imaging arrays. We briefly motivate the science case, which has spurred a large number…