Data Analysis in Cosmology [Paperback]

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.

The development of telescopes, detectors and satellites has led to a dramatic increase in cosmological data. This book offers the best techniques to extract information from that data and reliable methods to improve our view of the universe.

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.

Universal Tools.- The Sea of Wavelets.- Fisher Matrices and All That: Experimental Design and Data Compression.- Data Compression, Classification and Parameter Estimation. Methods: Examples from Astronomy.- Statistics of Cosmic Background Radiation.- Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: The Power Spectrum and Beyond.- Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Analysis.- Diffuse Source Separation in CMB Observations.- Techniques for Compact Source Extractl3–