State of the Universe

Removing a hidden foreground leakage from harmonic space ILC algorithm and analysis of Planck and WMAP data

by Prof. Rajib Saha (IISER-Bhopal)

Asia/Kolkata
A304

A304

Description
We discover usual harmonic space Internal-Linear-Combination (ILC) algorithm for foreground minimization inevitably contaminates its outcome by a hitherto unaccounted for leakage signal that arise due to foreground components. We propose a method to nullify the leakage and apply the improved ILC algorithm on Planck-2015 and WMAP 9-year data. We discuss a few other improvements of the harmonic space ILC algorithm. Our CMB cleaned map and its angular power spectrum agrees with Planck published results with some differences at different multipole ranges.
Poster