3 papers
astro-ph1999
Computing challenges of the Cosmic Microwave Background
J. Richard Bond, Robert G. Crittenden, Andrew H. Jaffe +1
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) encodes information on the origin and evolution of the universe, buried in a fractional anisotropy of one part in 100,000 on angular scales fr…
astro-ph1998
Igloo Pixelizations
Robert G. Crittenden
Upcoming microwave background experiments will see an incredible increase in the volume of data to be analyzed, which makes the choice of how it is discretized on the sky a crucial…
astro-ph1994
Polarization-Temperature Correlations in the Microwave Background
Robert Crittenden
The polarization of the CMB offers a potentially valuable probe of the physics of the early universe, specifically of the velocity of the photon-baryon fluid on the last scattering…