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Phase Correlations in Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature Maps
Peter Coles, Patrick Dineen, John Earl +1
We study the statistical properties of spherical harmonic modes of temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background. Unlike other studies, which focus mainly on properties of th…
astro-ph2003
Faraday Rotation as a Diagnostic of Galactic Foreground Contamination of CMB Maps
Patrick Dineen, Peter Coles
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 thes…