BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data
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| author | Carones, Alessandro Jose, Sijil Mustafa, Aliza Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta Baccigalupi, Carlo |
| author_facet | Carones, Alessandro Jose, Sijil Mustafa, Aliza Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta Baccigalupi, Carlo |
| contents | We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruction of signals with known spectral energy distributions, such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Sunyaev--Zeldovich distortions, or foreground moments, in both temperature and polarization through a suite of Internal Linear Combination (ILC) implementations, in the presence of astrophysical and instrumental contaminants. In addition, BROOM supports the blind reconstruction of coherent emission components with unknown covariance properties via a Generalized ILC (GILC) framework. Beyond component separation, the package provides tools to diagnose foreground complexity and to estimate residual contamination leaking into reconstructed maps across angular scales and sky regions. It also includes utilities to generate realistic microwave simulations for arbitrary CMB experiments and to compute angular power spectra of the resulting products. We present a comprehensive description and validation of the implemented pipelines in two representative experimental configurations: a full-sky satellite mission and a ground-based experiment. BROOM is publicly available, fully documented, and easily installable at https://github.com/alecarones/broom |
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| spellingShingle | BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data Carones, Alessandro Jose, Sijil Mustafa, Aliza Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta Baccigalupi, Carlo Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruction of signals with known spectral energy distributions, such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Sunyaev--Zeldovich distortions, or foreground moments, in both temperature and polarization through a suite of Internal Linear Combination (ILC) implementations, in the presence of astrophysical and instrumental contaminants. In addition, BROOM supports the blind reconstruction of coherent emission components with unknown covariance properties via a Generalized ILC (GILC) framework. Beyond component separation, the package provides tools to diagnose foreground complexity and to estimate residual contamination leaking into reconstructed maps across angular scales and sky regions. It also includes utilities to generate realistic microwave simulations for arbitrary CMB experiments and to compute angular power spectra of the resulting products. We present a comprehensive description and validation of the implemented pipelines in two representative experimental configurations: a full-sky satellite mission and a ground-based experiment. BROOM is publicly available, fully documented, and easily installable at https://github.com/alecarones/broom |
| title | BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14088 |