CMB @SISSA


◾ Principal Components and Statistical Analysis of Cosmological Gravitational Waves (PhD, Paolo Campeti, 2016-2020, supervisors Carlo Baccigalupi, Davide Poletti)

◾ Investigating Tensions in Cosmological Datasets (PhD, Hasti Khoraminezhad, 2017-2021, supervisors Carlo Baccigalupi, Matteo Viel)

◾ Component Separation for future CMB B-mode experiments (PhD, Farida Farsian, 2016-2020, supervisors Carlo Baccigalupi, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Davide Poletti)

◾ Probing Cosmological Reionization with future CMB experiments (PhD, Anirban Roy, 2015-2019, supervisors Carlo Baccigalupi, Andrea Lapi)


Suggested Readings

◉ General review of CMB science: Hu & White (1997), Baccigalupi (1999). Data analysis and instruments: Tristram and Ganga (2008).

◉ Map-Making techniques Puglisi et al. (2018), see also early works, Stompor et al (2001) and Tegmark (1997).

◉ Component separation: Stompor et al. (2009).

◉ Characterization of diffuse foregrounds for CMB, see Krachmalnicoff et al. (2018). See also early works, e.g. Baccigalupi (2003).