| Issue |
A&A
Volume 553, May 2013
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| Article Number | L4 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321382 | |
| Published online | 01 May 2013 | |
WMAP nine-year CMB estimation using sparsity ⋆
Laboratoire AIM, UMR CEA–CNRS–Paris 7, Irfu, SAp/SEDI, Service d’Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
e-mail: jerome.bobin@cea.fr
Received: 28 February 2013
Accepted: 22 March 2013
Recovering the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from WMAP data requires that Galactic foreground emissions are accurately separated out. Most component separation techniques rely on second-order statistics such as internal linear combination (ILC) techniques. We present a new WMAP nine-year CMB map with a resolution of 15 arcmin, which is reconstructed using a recently introduced sparse-component separation technique, called local generalized morphological component analysis (LGMCA). This focuses on the sparsity of the components to be retrieved in the wavelet domain. We show that although they are derived from a radically different separation criterion (i.e. sparsity), the LGMCA-WMAP 9 map and its power spectrum are fully consistent with their more recent estimates from WMAP 9.
Key words: methods: data analysis / cosmic background radiation / methods: statistical
Appendices A–C are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
© ESO, 2013
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