Genus topology of the cosmic microwave background from WMAP     

Wesley N. Colley  J. Richard Gott  III 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,344(3):686-695

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Concerning the connection between the C_ℓ power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background and the  Γ_m  Fourier spectrum of rings on the sky     

R. Ansari  S. Bargot  A. Bourrachot  F. Couchot  J. Haïssinski  S. Henrot-Versillé  G. Le Meur  O. Perdereau  M. Piat  S. Plaszczynski  F. Touze 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,343(2):552-558

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Observing the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect closer to home     

James E. Taylor  Kavilan Moodley  J. M. Diego 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,345(4):1127-1132

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Nature of dark energy and polarization measurements     

R. Mainini  L. P. L. Colombo  S. A. Bonometto   《New Astronomy》2003,8(8):751-766

High sensitivity polarization measures, on wide angular scales, together with data on anisotropy, can be used to fix DE parameters. In this paper, first of all, we aim to determine the sensitivity needed to provide significant limits. Our analysis puts in evidence that there is a class of DE models that polarization measures can possibly exclude soon. This class includes models with DE due to a Ratra–Peebles (RP) potential. Using a likelihood analysis, we show that it is possible to distinguish RP models from ΛCDM and other dynamical DE models, already with the sensitivity of experiments like SPOrt or WMAP, thanks to their negative TE correlation at low-l, when the optical depth τ is sufficiently large. On the contrary, fixing the energy scale Λ for RP potentials or distinguishing between ΛCDM and other DE potentials requires a much lower pixel noise, that no planned polarization experiment will achieve. While reviewing this paper after the referee report, the first-year WMAP data were released. WMAP finds large positive anisotropy–polarization correlations at low l; this apparently excludes DE models with RP potentials.  相似文献   

Can non-Gaussian cosmological models explain the WMAP high optical depth for reionization?     

Xuelei Chen  Asantha Cooray  Naoki Yoshida  Naoshi Sugiyama 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,346(3):L31-L35

The first-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data suggest a high optical depth for Thomson scattering of  0.17 ± 0.04  , implying that the Universe was reionized at an earlier epoch than previously expected. Such early reionization is likely to be caused by ultraviolet (UV) photons from first stars, but it appears that the observed high optical depth can be reconciled within the standard structure formation model only if star formation in the early Universe was extremely efficient. With normal star formation efficiencies, cosmological models with non-Gaussian density fluctuations may circumvent this conflict as high density peaks collapse at an earlier epoch than in models with Gaussian fluctuations. We study cosmic reionization in non-Gaussian models and explore to what extent, within available constraints, non-Gaussianities affect the reionization history. For mild non-Gaussian fluctuations at redshifts of 30 to 50, the increase in optical depth remains at a level of a few per cent and appears unlikely to aid significantly in explaining the measured high optical depth. On the other hand, within available observational constraints, increasing the non-Gaussian nature of density fluctuations can easily reproduce the optical depth and may remain viable in underlying models of non-Gaussianity with a scale-dependence.  相似文献   

All-sky component separation for the Planck mission     

V. Stolyarov  M. P. Hobson  M. A. J. Ashdown  A. N. Lasenby 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,336(1):97-111

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A speedy pixon image reconstruction algorithm     

Vincent Eke 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,324(1):108-118

A speedy pixon algorithm for image reconstruction is described. Two applications of the method to simulated astronomical data sets are also reported. In one case, galaxy clusters are extracted from multiwavelength microwave sky maps using the spectral dependence of the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect to distinguish them from the microwave background fluctuations and the instrumental noise. The second example involves the recovery of a sharply peaked emission profile, such as might be produced by a galaxy cluster observed in X-rays. These simulations show the ability of the technique both to detect sources in low signal-to-noise ratio data and to deconvolve a telescope beam in order to recover the internal structure of a source.  相似文献   

Cosmic microwave background power spectrum estimation with the destriping technique     

T. Poutanen  D. Maino  H. Kurki-Suonio  E. Keihänen  E. Hivon 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,353(1):43-58

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Parameter constraints for flat cosmologies from cosmic microwave background and 2dFGRS power spectra     

Will J. Percival  Will Sutherland  John A. Peacock  Carlton M. Baugh  Joss Bland-Hawthorn  Terry Bridges  Russell Cannon  Shaun Cole  Matthew Colless  Chris Collins  Warrick Couch  Gavin Dalton  Roberto De Propris  Simon P. Driver  George Efstathiou  Richard S. Ellis  Carlos S. Frenk  Karl Glazebrook  Carole Jackson  Ofer Lahav  Ian Lewis  Stuart Lumsden  Steve Maddox  Stephen Moody  Peder Norberg  Bruce A. Peterson  Keith Taylor 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,337(3):1068-1080

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Deep 1.4-GHz observations of diffuse polarized emission     

E. Carretti  S. Poppi  W. Reich  P. Reich  E. Fürst  G. Bernardi  S. Cortiglioni  C. Sbarra 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,367(1):132-138

Polarized diffuse emission observations at 1.4 GHz in a high Galactic latitude area of the Northern celestial hemisphere are presented. The  3.2 × 3.2 deg²  field, centred at  RA = 10^h58^m, Dec. =+42°18' (B1950)  , has Galactic coordinates   l ∼ 172°, b ∼+63°  and is located in the region selected as northern target of the Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarization Observations experiment. Observations have been performed with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope. We find that the angular power spectra of the E and B modes have slopes of  β _E =−1.79 ± 0.13  and  β _B =−1.74 ± 0.12  , respectively. Because of the very high Galactic latitude and the smooth emission, a weak Faraday rotation action is expected, which allows both a fair extrapolation to cosmic microwave background polarization (CMBP) frequencies and an estimate of the contamination by the Galactic synchrotron emission. We extrapolate the E -mode spectrum up to 32 GHz and confirm the possibility to safely detect the CMBP E -mode signal in the Ka band found in another low-emission region. Extrapolated up to 90 GHz, the Galactic synchrotron B mode looks to compete with the cosmic signal only for models with a tensor-to-scalar perturbation power ratio   T / S < 0.001  , which is even lower than the T / S value of 0.01 found to be accessible in the only other high Galactic latitude area investigated to date. This suggests that values as low as   T / S = 0.01  might be accessed at high Galactic latitudes. Such low-emission values can allow a significant redshift of the best frequency to detect the CMBP B mode, also reducing the contamination by Galactic dust, and opening interesting perspectives to investigate inflation models.  相似文献