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Implementation of frequency-correlated noise in CMB component separation: Method, Validation, and Early Applications
L. Zapelli, M. Bersanelli, L. P. L. Colombo +24
Parametric component separation methods used in cosmic microwave background (CMB) analyses commonly assume instrumental noise to be uncorrelated between frequency channels. This ap…
Measuring the CMB primordial B-modes with Bolometric Interferometry
A. Mennella, P. Ade, A. Almela +111
The Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is the first bolometric interferometer designed to measure the primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Backgr…
Foreground removal and 21 cm signal estimates: comparing different blind methods for the BINGO Telescope
Alessandro Marins, Filipe B. Abdalla, Elcio Abdalla +17
The BINGO radiotelescope will observe hydrogen distribution using Intensity Mapping (IM) to analyze the Dark Energy paradigm through Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. The target signal…
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: an instrument to observe the 21cm hydrogen line in the redshift range 0.13 z 0.45 -- status update
Carlos A. Wuensche, Elcio Abdalla, Filipe Batoni Abdalla +48
BINGO (BAO from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations) is a unique radio telescope designed to map the intensity of neutral hydrogen distribution at cosmological distances, making th…
Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: B-mode Component Separation
M. Remazeilles, A. J. Banday, C. Baccigalupi +113
We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordi…
Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Cluster Science
J. -B. Melin, A. Bonaldi, M. Remazeilles +118
We examine the cosmological constraints that can be achieved with a galaxy cluster survey with the future CORE space mission. Using realistic simulations of the millimeter sky, pro…
Optimal cosmic microwave background map-making in the presence of cross-correlated noise
Giancarlo de Gasperis, Alessandro Buzzelli, Paolo Cabella +2
We present an extension of the ROMA map-making algorithm for the generation of optimal cosmic microwave background polarization maps. The new code allows for a possible cross-corre…
Planck Intermediate Results. I. Further validation of new Planck clusters with XMM-Newton
The Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +182
We present further results from the ongoing XMM-Newton validation follow-up of Planck cluster candidates, detailing X-ray observations of eleven candidates detected at a signal-to-…
Planck Early Results: Statistical properties of extragalactic radio sources in the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +201
The data reported in Planck's Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) are exploited to measure the number counts (dN/dS) of extragalactic radio sources at 30, 44, 70, 100, 1…
Planck Early Results: Origin of the submm excess dust emission in the Magellanic Clouds
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +197
The integrated Spectral Energy Distributions of the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud appear significantly flatter than expected from dust models based on their FIR and radio emissi…
Planck Early Results: The Planck View of Nearby Galaxies
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +192
The all-sky coverage of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) provides an unsurpassed survey of galaxies at submillimetre (submm) wavelengths, representing a ma…
Planck early results. III. First assessment of the Low Frequency Instrument in-flight performance
A. Mennella, M. Bersanelli, R. C. Butler +158
The scientific performance of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) after one year of in-orbit operation is presented. We describe the main optical parameters and discuss photo…
Planck Early Results XVIII: The power spectrum of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202
Using Planck maps of six regions of low Galactic dust emission with a total area of about 140 square degrees, we determine the angular power spectra of cosmic infrared background (…
Planck early results. IX. XMM-Newton follow-up for validation of Planck cluster candidates
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +197
We present the XMM-Newton follow-up for confirmation of Planck cluster candidates. Twenty-five candidates have been observed to date using snapshot (~10 ksec) exposures, ten as par…
Planck Early Results VIII: The all-sky Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +235
We present the first all-sky sample of galaxy clusters detected blindly by the Planck satellite through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from its six highest frequencies. This ear…
Planck pre-launch status: the Planck-LFI programme
N. Mandolesi, M. Bersanelli, R. C. Butler +140
This paper provides an overview of the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) programme within the ESA Planck mission. The LFI instrument has been developed to produce high precision maps…
Foreground influence on primordial non-Gaussianity estimates: needlet analysis of WMAP 5-year data
P. Cabella, D. Pietrobon, M. Veneziani +5
We constrain the amplitude of primordial non-Gaussianity in the CMB data taking into account the presence of foreground residuals in the maps. We generalise the needlet bispectrum…
Properties of Galactic cirrus clouds observed by BOOMERanG
M. Veneziani, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +24
The physical properties of galactic cirrus emission are not well characterized. BOOMERanG is a balloon-borne experiment designed to study the cosmic microwave background at high an…
Residual noise covariance for Planck low-resolution data analysis
R. Keskitalo, M. A. J. Ashdown, P. Cabella +22
Aims: Develop and validate tools to estimate residual noise covariance in Planck frequency maps. Quantify signal error effects and compare different techniques to produce low-resol…
Needlet Bispectrum Asymmetries in the WMAP 5-year Data
Davide Pietrobon, Paolo Cabella, Amedeo Balbi +3
We apply the needlet formalism to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 5-year data, looking for evidence of non-Gaussianity in the bispectrum of the needlet amplitudes. We conf…
New estimates of the CMB angular power spectra from the WMAP 5 yrs low resolution data
A. Gruppuso, A. De Rosa, P. Cabella +5
A Quadratic Maximum Likelihood (QML) estimator is applied to the WMAP 5 year low resolution maps to compute the CMB angular power spectra at large scales for both temperature and p…