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| author | Galloni, Giacomo Campeti, Paolo Pagano, Luca Gerbino, Martina Lattanzi, Massimiliano Natoli, Paolo |
| author_facet | Galloni, Giacomo Campeti, Paolo Pagano, Luca Gerbino, Martina Lattanzi, Massimiliano Natoli, Paolo |
| contents | Accurate parameter estimation from cosmic microwave background data requires reliable likelihood modeling, particularly at large angular scales where angular power spectrum estimators exhibit non-Gaussian statistics. We present a novel approach, based on the Hamimeche-Lewis formalism, that marginalizes over auto-spectra, thus reducing residual biases from noise misestimation and partial sky coverage. We validate our approach by simulating three independent CMB channels, or data splits, in a multi-field setting, comparing to the pixel-based likelihood ground truth estimates for the optical depth $τ$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. We benchmark our method against the main power spectrum based alternatives available in the literature, showing that it outperforms all of them in terms of accuracy, while remaining fast and computationally efficient. |
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| spellingShingle | Accurate and efficient likelihood modeling for large-scale CMB data Galloni, Giacomo Campeti, Paolo Pagano, Luca Gerbino, Martina Lattanzi, Massimiliano Natoli, Paolo Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Accurate parameter estimation from cosmic microwave background data requires reliable likelihood modeling, particularly at large angular scales where angular power spectrum estimators exhibit non-Gaussian statistics. We present a novel approach, based on the Hamimeche-Lewis formalism, that marginalizes over auto-spectra, thus reducing residual biases from noise misestimation and partial sky coverage. We validate our approach by simulating three independent CMB channels, or data splits, in a multi-field setting, comparing to the pixel-based likelihood ground truth estimates for the optical depth $τ$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. We benchmark our method against the main power spectrum based alternatives available in the literature, showing that it outperforms all of them in terms of accuracy, while remaining fast and computationally efficient. |
| title | Accurate and efficient likelihood modeling for large-scale CMB data |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24829 |