Nicola Vittorio
European Southern Observatory
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Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | 1998
P. Mazzotta; G. Mazzitelli; S. Colafrancesco; Nicola Vittorio
We present in this paper new and updated calculations of the ionization equilibrium for all the elements from H to Ni. We collected for these elements all the data available in the literature for the ionization and radiative plus dielectronic recombination rates. In particular, the dielectronic rates have been fitted with a single formula and the related coefficients are tabulated. Our results are compared with previous works.
The Astrophysical Journal | 2006
T. E. Montroy; Peter A. R. Ade; J. J. Bock; J. R. Bond; J. Borrill; A. Boscaleri; P. Cabella; Carlo R. Contaldi; B. P. Crill; P. de Bernardis; G. de Gasperis; A. de Oliveira-Costa; G. De Troia; G. Di Stefano; E. Hivon; A. H. Jaffe; T. S. Kisner; W. C. Jones; A. E. Lange; S. Masi; Philip Daniel Mauskopf; C. J. MacTavish; Alessandro Melchiorri; P. Natoli; C. B. Netterfield; Enzo Pascale; F. Piacentini; D. Pogosyan; G. Polenta; S. Prunet
We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the 2003 January Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from 6 days of observation of a patch covering 0.22% of the sky centered near R.A. = 825, decl. = -45
The Astrophysical Journal | 2006
W. C. Jones; Peter A. R. Ade; J. J. Bock; J. R. Bond; J. Borrill; A. Boscaleri; P. Cabella; Carlo R. Contaldi; B. P. Crill; P. de Bernardis; G. de Gasperis; A. de Oliveira-Costa; G. De Troia; G. Di Stefano; E. Hivon; A. H. Jaffe; T. S. Kisner; A. E. Lange; C. J. MacTavish; S. Masi; Philip Daniel Mauskopf; Alessandro Melchiorri; T. E. Montroy; P. Natoli; C. B. Netterfield; Enzo Pascale; F. Piacentini; D. Pogosyan; G. Polenta; S. Prunet
We report on observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) obtained during the 2003 January flight of BOOMERANG. These results are derived from 195 hr of observation with four 145 GHz polarization-sensitive bolometer (PSB) pairs, identical in design to the four 143 GHz Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) polarized pixels. The data include 75 hr of observations distributed over 1.84% of the sky with an additional 120 hr concentrated on the central portion of the field, which represents 0.22% of the full sky. From these data we derive an estimate of the angular power spectrum of temperature fluctuations of the CMB in 24 bands over the multipole range 50 ≤ l ≤ 1500. A series of features, consistent with those expected from acoustic oscillations in the primordial photon-baryon fluid, are clearly evident in the power spectrum, as is the exponential damping of power on scales smaller than the photon mean free path at the epoch of last scattering (l ≳ 900). As a consistency check, the collaboration has performed two fully independent analyses of the time-ordered data, which are found to be in excellent agreement.
The Astrophysical Journal | 2006
C. J. MacTavish; Peter A. R. Ade; J. J. Bock; J. R. Bond; J. Borrill; A. Boscaleri; P. Cabella; Carlo R. Contaldi; B. P. Crill; P. de Bernardis; G. de Gasperis; A. de Oliveira-Costa; G. De Troia; G. Di Stefano; E. Hivon; A. H. Jaffe; W. C. Jones; T. S. Kisner; A. E. Lange; A. M. Lewis; S. Masi; Philip Daniel Mauskopf; Alessandro Melchiorri; T. E. Montroy; P. Natoli; C. B. Netterfield; Enzo Pascale; F. Piacentini; D. Pogosyan; G. Polenta
We present the cosmological parameters from the CMB intensity and polarization power spectra of the 2003 Antarctic flight of the BOOMERANG telescope. The BOOMERANG data alone constrain the parameters of the ΛCDM model remarkably well and are consistent with constraints from a multiexperiment combined CMB data set. We add LSS data from the 2dF and SDSS redshift surveys to the combined CMB data set and test several extensions to the standard model including running of the spectral index, curvature, tensor modes, the effect of massive neutrinos, and an effective equation of state for dark energy. We also include an analysis of constraints to a model that allows a CDM isocurvature admixture.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2008
D. Marinucci; D. Pietrobon; A. Balbi; P. Baldi; Paolo Cabella; G. Kerkyacharian; P. Natoli; D. Picard; Nicola Vittorio
We discuss Spherical Needlets and their properties. Needlets are a form of spherical wavelets which do not rely on any kind of tangent plane approximation and enjoy good localization properties in both pixel and harmonic space; moreover needlets coefficients are asymptotically uncorrelated at any fixed angular distance, which makes their use in statistical procedures very promising. In view of these properties, we believe needlets may turn out to be especially useful in the analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data on the incomplete sky, as well as of other cosmological observations. As a final advantage, we stress that the implementation of needlets is computationally very convenient and may rely completely on standard data analysis packages such as HEALPix.
The Astrophysical Journal | 2004
F. K. Hansen; Paolo Cabella; Domenico Marinucci; Nicola Vittorio
We use the local curvature to investigate the possible existence of non-Gaussianity/asymmetry in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. Considering the full sky, we find results that are consistent with the Gaussian assumption. However, strong non-Gaussian features emerge when considering the northern and southern Galactic hemisphere separately, particularly on scales between 1° and 5°. Quite interestingly, the maximum non-Gaussianity is found for hemispheres centered near the ecliptic poles, which might suggest the presence of some systematic effect. The direction of the asymmetry seems consistent with the findings by Eriksen et al.We use the local curvature to investigate the possible existence of non-Gaussianity/asymmetry in the WMAP data. Considering the full sky we find results which are consistent with the Gaussian assumption. However, strong non-Gaussian features emerge when considering the northern and southern galactic hemisphere separately, particularly on scales between 1 and 5 degrees. Quite interestingly, the maximum non-Gaussianity is found for hemispheres centered near the ecliptic poles, which might suggest the presence of some systematic effect. The direction of the asymmetry seems consistent with the findings by Eriksen et al. 2004. Subject headings: (cosmology:) cosmic microwave background — cosmology: observations — methods: data analysis — methods: statistical
The Astrophysical Journal | 2000
Philip Daniel Mauskopf; Peter A. R. Ade; P. de Bernardis; J. J. Bock; J. Borrill; A. Boscaleri; B. P. Crill; G. DeGasperis; G. De Troia; P. Farese; P. G. Ferreira; K. Ganga; M. Giacometti; Shaul Hanany; V. V. Hristov; A. Iacoangeli; A. H. Jaffe; A. E. Lange; A. T. Lee; S. Masi; Alessandro Melchiorri; F. Melchiorri; L. Miglio; T. E. Montroy; C. B. Netterfield; Enzo Pascale; F. Piacentini; P. L. Richards; G. Romeo; J. E. Ruhl
We describe a measurement of the angular power spectrum of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at scales of 0&fdg;3 to 5 degrees from the North American test flight of the Boomerang experiment. Boomerang is a balloon-borne telescope with a bolometric receiver designed to map CMB anisotropies on a long-duration balloon flight. During a 6 hr test flight of a prototype system in 1997, we mapped more than 200 deg(2) at high Galactic latitudes in two bands centered at 90 and 150 GHz with a resolution of 26&arcmin; and 16&farcm;5 FWHM, respectively. Analysis of the maps gives a power spectrum with a peak at angular scales of 1 degrees with an amplitude 70 µK(CMB).
Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2006
S. Masi; Peter A. R. Ade; J. J. Bock; J. R. Bond; J. Borrill; A. Boscaleri; P. Cabella; Carlo R. Contaldi; B. P. Crill; P. de Bernardis; G. de Gasperis; A. de Oliveira-Costa; G. De Troia; G. Di Stefano; P. Ehlers; E. Hivon; V. V. Hristov; A. Iacoangeli; A. H. Jaffe; W. C. Jones; T. S. Kisner; A. E. Lange; C. J. MacTavish; C. Marini Bettolo; P. Mason; Philip Daniel Mauskopf; T. E. Montroy; F. Nati; L. Nati; P. Natoli
Aims.We present the BOOMERanG-03 experiment, and the maps of the Stokes parameters I, Q, U of the microwave sky obtained during a 14 day balloon flight in 2003. Methods.Using a balloon-borne mm-wave telescope with polarization sensitive bolometers, three regions of the southern sky were surveyed: a deep survey (~90 square degrees) and a shallow survey (~750 square degrees) at high Galactic latitudes (both centered at , Dec ~ −45°) and a survey of ~300 square degrees across the Galactic plane at , dec ~ −47° . All three surveys were carried out in three wide frequency bands centered at 145, 245 and 345 GHz, with an angular resolution of ~ . Results.The 145 GHz maps of Stokes I are dominated by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy, which is mapped with high signal to noise ratio. The measured anisotropy pattern is consistent with the pattern measured in the same region by BOOMERanG-98 and by WMAP. The 145 GHz maps of Stokes Q and U provide a robust statistical detection of polarization of the CMB when subjected to a power spectrum analysis. The amplitude of the detected polarization is consistent with that of the CMB in the CDM cosmological scenario. At 145 GHz, in the CMB surveys, the intensity and polarization of the astrophysical foregrounds are found to be negligible with respect to the cosmological signal. At 245 and 345 GHz we detect ISD emission correlated to the 3000 GHz IRAS/DIRBE maps, and give upper limits for any other non-CMB component. When compared to monitors of different interstellar components, the intensity maps of the surveyed section of the Galactic plane show that a variety of emission mechanisms is present in that region.
Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2001
P. Natoli; G. de Gasperis; C. Gheller; Nicola Vittorio
We present a parallel implementation of a map-making algorithm for CMB anisotropy experiments which is both fast and efficient. We show for the first time a Maximum Likelihood, minimum variance map obtained by processing the entire data stream expected from the PLANCK Surveyor, under the assumption of a symmetric beam profile. Here we restrict ourselves to the case of the 30 GHz channel of the PLANCK Low Frequency Instrument. The extension to PLANCK higher frequency channels is straightforward. If the satellite pointing periodicity is good enough to average data that belong to the same sky circle, then the code runs very efficiently on workstations. The serial version of our code also runs on very competitive time-scales the map-making pipeline for current and forthcoming balloon borne experiments.
Physical Review D | 2002
C. Baccigalupi; A. Balbi; Sabino Matarrese; F. Perrotta; Nicola Vittorio
We constrain cosmological parameters in flat cosmologies with tracking dark energy (or quintessence) using the existing data on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We perform a maximum likelihood analysis using combined data from COBE-DMR, BOOMERanG, DASI and MAXIMA, obtaining estimates for the dark energy density