Fast and Efficient Template Fitting of Deterministic Anisotropic Cosmological Models Applied to WMAP Data

2006/03/31 by T. R. Jaffe, A. J. Banday, H. K. Eriksen +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/501343

published as Astrophys.J. 643 (2006) 616-629 · 14 pages, 11 figure, to be published in ApJ

arxiv created 2006/03/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We explore methods of fitting templates to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, and in particular demonstrate the application of the total convolver algorithm as a fast method of performing a search over all possible locations and orientations of the template relative to the sky. This analysis includes investigation of issues such as chance alignments and foreground residuals. We apply these methods to compare Bianchi models of type VII_h to WMAP first year data and confirm the basic result of our 2005 paper.

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