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Title Data analysis in cosmology / V.J. Martínez [and others], (eds.)
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 636 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Lecture notes in physics, 0075-8450 ; 665
Lecture notes in physics ; 665.
Contents The sea of wavelets / B.J.T. Jones -- Fisher matrices and all that : experimental design and data compression / A. Heavens -- Data compression, classification and parameter estimation. Methods : examples from astronomy / O. Lahav -- Cosmic microwave background anisotropies : the power spectrum and beyond / E. Martínez-González -- Cosmic microwave background polarization analysis / A. Challinor -- Diffuse source separation in CMB observations / J. Delabrouille and J.-F. Cardoso -- Techniques for compact source extraction in CMB maps / R.B. Barreiro -- Determination of cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background anisotropies / A. Melchiorri, C. Odman, and P. Serra -- Cosmic microwave background data analysis : from time-ordered data to angular power spectra / J. Borrill -- The large-scale structure in the universe : from power laws to acoustic peaks / V.J. Martínez -- The cosmic web : geometric analysis / R. van de Weygaert and W. Schaap -- Power spectrum estimation : I. Basics ; II. Linear maximum likelihood / A.J.S. Hamilton -- Introduction to higher order spatial statistics in cosmology / I. Szapudi -- Phase correlations and topological measures of large-scale structure / P. Coles -- Multiscale methods / E. Saar -- Gaussian fields and constrained simulations of the large-scale structure / Y. Hoffman -- Weak gravitational lensing / A. Heavens -- Mass reconstruction from lensing / J.M. Diego
Summary The amount of cosmological data has dramatically increased in the past decades due to an unprecedented development of telescopes, detectors and satellites. Efficiently handling and analysing new data of the order of terabytes per day requires not only computer power to be processed but also the development of sophisticated algorithms and pipelines. Aiming at students and researchers the lecture notes in this volume explain in pedagogical manner the best techniques used to extract information from cosmological data, as well as reliable methods that should help us improve our view of the universe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cosmology -- Data processing
Cosmology -- Data processing.
Physique.
Cosmology -- Data processing
Form Electronic book
Author Martinez, V. J. (Vicent J.), 1962-
ISBN 9783540447672
3540447679
1280384808
9781280384806
9786613562722
6613562726