Statistical challenges in the analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS190zbMath1160.62097arXiv0807.1816MaRDI QIDQ1018601

Domenico Marinucci, Paolo Cabella

Publication date: 20 May 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1816

zbMATH Keywords

isotropyspherical waveletsWigner coefficientsspherical random fieldsbispectrumcosmic microwave background radiationangular power spectrumlocal curvatureWilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis (62M15) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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Uses Software

• Healpix
• libmadam

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