English
Related papers

Related papers: Producing Mega-pixel CMB Maps from Differential Ra…

200 papers

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectral distortions (SDs) will open a new window on the very early universe, providing new information complementary to that gathered from CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Hao Fu , Matteo Lucca , Silvia Galli , Elia S. Battistelli , Deanna C. Hooper , Julien Lesgourgues , Nils Schöneberg

Accurate computations of spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are required for constraining energy release scenarios at redshifts $z\gtrsim 10^3$. The existing literature focuses on distortions that are small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Jens Chluba

We consider the problem of numerical computation of the Kolmogorov complexity and the fractal dimension of the anisotropy spots of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Namely, we describe an algorithm of estimation of the complexity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Allahverdyan , V. G. Gurzadyan , A. A. Soghoyan

Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have extended the measured power spectrum to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and there appears to be possible evidence for excess power on small angular scales. The primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 D. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino , G. J. Mathews

Departures of the energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from a perfect blackbody probe a fundamental property of the universe -- its thermal history. Current upper limits, dating back some 25 years, limit such spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 A. Kogut , M. H. Abitbol , J. Chluba , J. Delabrouille , D. Fixsen , J. C. Hill , S. P. Patil , A. Rotti

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is now firmly established as a fundamental and essential probe of the geometry, constituents, and birth of the Universe. The CMB is a potent observable because it can be measured with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hanany , M. Niemack , L. Page

Since the temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) on large-angular scales probe length scales that were super-horizon sized at photon decoupling and hence insensitive to microphysical processes, the low-multipole CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-30 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang

The frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relatively untapped source of data which can allow us to peer beyond the surface of last scattering. Small deviations away from a perfect blackbody shape will encode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bryce Cyr

We use data from the Tenerife 10, 15 and 33 GHz beamswitching experiments along with the COBE 53 and 90 GHz data to separate the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from the Galactic signal and create two maps at high Galactic…

A milestone of modern cosmology was the prediction and serendipitous discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the radiation left over after decoupling from matter in the early evolutionary stages of the Universe. A prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. Noterdaeme , P. Petitjean , R. Srianand , C. Ledoux , S. Lopez

We present a simple, yet accurate approximation for calculating the cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectrum in adiabatic models. It consists of solving for the evolution of a two-fluid model until the epoch of recombination…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Uros Seljak

We constrain the deviation of adiabatic evolution of the Universe using the data on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies measured by the {\it Planck} satellite and a sample of 481 X-ray selected clusters with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-31 I. de Martino , R. Génova-Santos , F. Atrio-Barandela , H. Ebeling , A. Kashlinsky , D. Kocevski , C. J. A. P. Martins

An enormous amount of observations on Cosmic Microwave Background radiation has been collected in the last decade, and much more data are expected in the near future from planned or operating satellite missions. These datasets are a…

Applications · Statistics 2009-05-15 Paolo Cabella , Domenico Marinucci

Broadband time-ordered data obtained from telescopes with a wavelength-dependent, asymmetric beam pattern can be used to extract maps at multiple wavelengths from a single scan. This technique is especially useful when collecting data on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Brianna Cantrall , Solomon Quinn , Emory F. Bunn

The cosmological magnetic field is one of the important physical quantities which affect strongly the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum. Recent CMB observations have been extended to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. G. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which permeates the entire Universe, is the radiation left over from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. On very large scales, the CMB radiation field is smooth and isotropic, but the existence of…

We use wavelet and curvelet transforms to extract signals of cosmic strings from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy maps, and to study the limits on the cosmic string tension which various ongoing CMB temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Lukas Hergt , Adam Amara , Robert Brandenberger , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

The lensing of CMB photons by intervening large-scale structure leaves a characteristic imprint on its arcminute-scale anisotropy that can be used to map the dark matter distribution in projection on degree scales or ~100 Mpc/h comoving. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Wayne Hu

The recent study of BOOMERanG 150 GHz Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation maps have detected ellipticity of the temperature anisotropy spots independent on the temperature threshold. The effect has been found for spots up to several…

Upcoming ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will provide CMB maps with high sensitivity and resolution that can be used for high fidelity lensing reconstruction. However, the sky coverage will be incomplete and the noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Mark Mirmelstein , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis