CMB Data Analysis in the example of the POLARBEAR experiment and the LiteBIRD experiment

arXiv:2609.32037 · astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-10-10

Comments: PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2022. 242 pages, 66 figures, 6 tables. Also available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hh4w9v6

Code: https://github.com/ickc/TAIL

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Cosmic Microwave Background — 50× in this paper
Calibration — 33× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Anisotropy — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Half-Wave Plate — 12× in this paper
Alignment — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Monte Carlo — 11× in this paper
Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate — 10× in this paper
Aperture — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Timestream of Data — 7× in this paper
Family-wise Error Rate — 3× in this paper
Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Gravitational Lensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Kernel Density Estimation — 3× in this paper
Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Band-Pass Window Function — 2× in this paper
Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Point Spread Function — 2× in this paper
Primordial Magnetic Fields — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transition Edge Sensor — 2× in this paper
APEX — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations — 1× in this paper
Community File System — 1× in this paper
Fast Fourier Transform — 1× in this paper
Fisher Information — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Frequency Dependence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalized Least Squares — 1× in this paper
Per Constant Elevation Scan — 1× in this paper
Pixel Window Function — 1× in this paper
Principle Component Analysis — 1× in this paper
Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Time Ordered Astrophysics Scalable Tools — 1× in this paper
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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