Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: CMB signal in WMAP 3yr data with FastICA   We present an application of the fast Independent Component Analysis
(FastICA) to the WMAP 3yr data with the goal of extracting the CMB signal. We
evaluate the confidence of our results by means of Monte Carlo simulations
including CMB, foreground contaminations and instrumental noise specific of
each WMAP frequency band. We perform a complete analysis involving all or a
subset of the WMAP channels in order to select the optimal combination for CMB
extraction, using the frequency scaling of the reconstructed component as a
figure of merit. We found that the combination KQVW provides the best CMB
frequency scaling, indicating that the low frequency foreground contamination
in Q, V and W bands is better traced by the emission in the K band. The CMB
angular power spectrum is recovered up to the degree scale, it is consistent
within errors for all WMAP channel combination considered, and in close
agreement with the WMAP 3yr results. We perform a statistical analysis of the
recovered CMB pattern, and confirm the sky asymmetry reported in several
previous works with independent techniques.

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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys