In this section we will learn about the CMB data from WMAP (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and Planck (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck). The goals ...

Abstract: We estimate cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization power spectra and temperature–polarization cross-spectra, from the 9-year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).

If a CMB map is contaminated by the SZ effect of galaxies or galaxy clusters, the CMB maps should have similar non-Gaussian features to the galaxy and cluster fields. Using the WMAP data and 2MASS ...