COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND

FLUCTUATION

GAURI SHARMA

Supervisor: Guilaine Lagache

CONTENTS
1: Introduction

Small history of CMB origin

What is CMB

Properties of CMB

Why CMB is important

2: History of CMB discovery

About instruments

3: Plank data analysis

4: Conclusion
GOAL: Construct good CMB map and verify them

INTRODUCTION
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Create particles &

antiparticles that existed
0.001 ns after Big Bang.

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Force

Four
Forces

Particle physicists look at the

properties of particles
produced by accelerator.

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Astrophysicists look at the CMB,

galaxies, etc. in the space.
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Image credit: LBNL, Particle data group

WHY CMB ???

it is the oldest image of the universe that we
have;
it has a perfect black body spectrum.
it is remarkably isotropic.
and small differences in the isotropy are very
rich in information.

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Tells distribution of
matter on large scale

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Properties of gases
Dark matter and other
cosmological parameters

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Image credits: Wayne Hu

HISTORY
The
oldest
Oldest light
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Universe
Isotropic everywhere

Discovered the remnant

afterglow from the Big Bang.
2.7 K
Blackbody radiation,
Discovered the patterns
(anisotropy) in the afterglow.
angular scale ~ 7
(Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe):

angular scale ~ 15
Works on 5 different
frequencies
2009

Planck

Image credit: NASA/WMAP/Plank/google image gallery

angular scale ~ 5,
Works on 9 different
frequencies

Data Analysis

Used 100GHz, 143GHz, 217GHz, 353GHz with resolution 9.68', 7.3', 5.02', 4.94'
respectively.
Used Healpy module and python coding
100GHz

143GHz

217GHz

353GHz
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Image credit: http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/foreground/

Verification of Map

Compare True_CMB_map with Plank_CMB_map

Find Correlation coefficient
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and Slope

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Correct map

Wrong Maps

Masked with 353 GHz map

By using mask for 0.007

Correlation coefficient 0.99

Slope = 1.01

Power Spectrum

Our CMB map Result

PLANK CMB
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Conclusion

CMB signal is the oldest light in UNIVERSE

Anisotropies
scale.

in CMB are very rich in information to tell about the universe on large

CMB Map can only tells us matter distribution visually in universe.

POWER SPECTRUM of CMB map can give us all the parameters that are important to
retrieve the Physics of universe at large scale.

Future plans

Analyze power spectra

Study of 6 cosmological parameters

Calculation of 6 cosmological parameters

special Thanks for my colleague

(: Marie :)

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ILC (Internal linear combination) with Lagrange multipliers

Lagrange Multipliers Method :

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