Foregrounds and Forecasts for the Cosmic Microwave Background
Foregrounds and Forecasts for the Cosmic Microwave Background
One of the main challenges facing upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will be to distinguish the cosmological signal from foreground contamination. We present a comprehensive treatment of this problem and study how foregrounds degrade the accuracy with which the Boomerang, MAP, and Planck experiments can measure cosmological parameters. Our …