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

astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

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

Terminology

• 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

Sources

• The Simons Observatory: a new open-source power spectrum pipeline applied to the Planck legacy data

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