Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, submitted to ApJ. For high-quality figures of this paper and our phase-cleaned map fits file see http://www.tac.dk/~
Scientific paper
We present a new method based on phase analysis for the Galaxy and foreground component separation from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal. This method is based on a prevailing assumption that the phases of the underlying CMB signal should have no or little correlation with those of the foregrounds. This method takes into consideration all the phases of each multipole mode (l <= 50, -l <= m <=l) from the whole sky without galactic cut, masks or any dissection of the whole sky into disjoint regions. We use cross correlation of the phases to illustrate that significant correlations of the foregrounds manifest themselves in the phases of the WMAP 5 frequency bands, which are used for separation of the CMB from the signals. Our final phase-cleaned CMB map has the angular power spectrum in agreement with both the WMAP result and that from Tegmark, de Oliveira-Costa and Hamilton (TOH), the phases of our derived CMB signal, however, are slightly different from those of the WMAP Internal Linear Combination map and the TOH map.
Chiang Lung-Yih
Naselsky Pavel D.
Novikov Igor D.
Verkhodanov Oleg V.
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