On spin scale-discretised wavelets on the sphere for the analysis of CMB polarisation [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1340


A new spin wavelet transform on the sphere is proposed to analyse the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a spin $\pm 2$ signal observed on the celestial sphere. The scalar directional scale-discretised wavelet transform on the sphere is extended to analyse signals of arbitrary spin. The resulting spin scale-discretised wavelet transform probes the directional intensity of spin signals. A procedure is presented using this new spin wavelet transform to recover E- and B-mode signals from partial-sky observations of CMB polarisation.

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J. McEwen, M. Buttner, B. Leistedt, et. al.
Thu, 4 Dec 14
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Comments: 4 pages, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 306, 2014 (A. F. Heavens, J.-L. Starck, A. Krone-Martins eds.)