New Approaches to Map-Making for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

Extragalactic point sources are an additional foreground contaminant in CMB maps; proper identification and removal of these sources is a crucial step in the analysis pipeline. From the standpoint of Extragalactic Astrophysics, point source data from the WMAP instrument can provide important information about source variability on a range of different time scales. I establish a program to search the public time-ordered WMAP datasets for under-exploited multi-band data on the variability and evolutionary properties of point sources catalogued by the WMAP team.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Armitage-Caplan, Charmaine Rose

Contributors dc:contributor

• Susan Lamb

• Physics, Astrophysics

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3391874

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80603