Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
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Ph.D dissertation, 2004. 155 pages; United States -- California: California Institute of Technology; 2004. Publication Number:
Statistics
Computation
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Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmic Background Imager, Power Spectrum, Hubble Constant
Scientific paper
We present results from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI), a sensitive 13-element interferometer located high in the Chilean Andes. We also discuss methods of analyzing the data from the CBI, including an improved way of measuring the true power spectrum using maximum likelihood estimation. This improved method leads to a saving of a factor of two in memory usage, and an increase in speed of order the number of points in the spectrum. The initial results are discussed, in which the fall-off in power at ell > 1000 (the "damping tail") was first observed. We also present the results from the first year of observations with the CBI, and discuss cosmological interpretations both alone and in concert with the results from other experiments. These provide tight constraints on cosmological parameters, including a Hubble constant of 69 +/- 4 km/s/Mpc, an age of the universe of 13.7 +/- 0.2 billion years, and a density of dark energy of 0.70 +/- 0.05 of the critical density of the universe. Finally, we discuss an alternate method of data compression, with great flexibility in what information is kept, while being computationally tractable. We then apply this method to the CBI data to constrain the potential emission from foreground contaminants contributing to the observed CMB radiation. We find that the data is consistent with zero foreground, with a maximum allowed foreground contribution between about 8% and 12% of the total signal (at an ell of 600 and frequency of 30 GHz), depending on the spectral index of foreground emission.
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