Fast and Efficient Template Fitting of Deterministic Anisotropic Cosmological Models Applied toWMAPData
Author(s) -
T. R. Jaffe,
A. J. Banday,
H. K. Eriksen,
K. M. Górski,
Frode K. Hansen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/501343
Subject(s) - cmb cold spot , cosmic microwave background , template , anisotropy , cosmic background radiation , sky , planck , cosmic cancer database , algorithm , computer science , statistical physics , physics , astrophysics , optics , programming language
We explore methods of fitting templates to cosmic microwave background (CMB)data, and in particular demonstrate the application of the total convolveralgorithm as a fast method of performing a search over all possible locationsand orientations of the template relative to the sky. This analysis includesinvestigation of issues such as chance alignments and foreground residuals. Weapply these methods to compare Bianchi models of type VII_h to WMAP first yeardata and confirm the basic result of our 2005 paper.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure, to be published in Ap
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