Statistical challenges in the analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS190zbMATH Open1160.62097arXiv0807.1816MaRDI QIDQ1018601FDOQ1018601

Authors: Paolo Cabella, Domenico Marinucci 

Publication date: 20 May 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 goldmine of information for Cosmology and Theoretical Physics; their efficient exploitation posits several intriguing challenges from the statistical point of view. In this paper we review a number of open problems in CMB data analysis and we present applications to observations from the WMAP mission.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1816

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zbMATH Keywords

isotropyspherical random fieldsspherical waveletsbispectrumcosmic microwave background radiationWigner coefficientsangular power spectrumlocal curvatureWilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis (62M15) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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Uses Software

• Healpix
• libmadam

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