Doctoral Degrees (Applied Mathematics)
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Item Evolution of galaxy cluster scaling relations over half a Hubble time.(2016) Wilson, Susan.; Hilton, Matthew James.; Oozeer, Nadeem.Abstract available in PDF file.Item Non-circularity of beams in the CMB polarization power spectrum estimation.(2013) Ramamonjisoa, Fidy Andriamanankasina.; Ray, Subharthi.Precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies have been one of the foremost concerns in modern cosmology as it provides valuable information on the cosmology of the Universe. However, an accurate estimation of the CMB power spectrum faces many challenges as the CMB experiments sensitivity increases. Furthermore, for the polarization experiments, the precision of the measurements is complicated by the fact that the polarization signal is very faint compared to the measured total intensity and could be impossible to detect in the presence of high level of systematics. One of the most important source of errors in CMB polarization experiment is the beam non-circularity (asymmetry). In addition, the non-uniform and partial sky coverage resulting from the masking of the CMB foreground contaminants as well as point sources bias the estimation of the power spectrum. Consequently, a reasonable estimation of the power spectrum must account for, at least, the beam asymmetry and incomplete sky coverage. Accurate estimation of the angular power spectrum can be done using the standard optimal Maximum Likelihood (ML), although for high resolution CMB experiments with large data set this method is unfeasible due to the enormous computation time involved in the process. The focus of this research is to estimate the CMB temperature anisotropy T and E- polarization cross-power spectrum and EE polarization power spectrum using a semi-analytical framework, and tackle the computational challenge of the TE power spectrum estimation with the pseudo-Cl estimator in the presence of the non-circular beam and cut-sky systematics. We examine, in the first step, the estimation of the CMB TE power spectrum by only considering the beam non-circularity with a complete sky, and give the error estimates of the power spectrum. Then, we will consider the more general case that includes the effect of the beam asymmetry and cut-sky as a result of the foreground removals across the Galactic plane. The numerical implementation of the bias matrix presents a huge computational challenge. Our ultimate goal is to speed-up the computation of the TE bias matrix that relates the true and observed power spectra in the case of a full sky coverage using a non-circular beam. We adopt a model of beams obtained from a perturbative expansion of the beam around a circular (axisymmetric) one in harmonic space and compute the bias matrix by using an efficient algorithm for rapid computation. We show in this work that, in the case of non-circular beams and full sky survey, a fast computation of the TE bias matrix can be performed in few seconds using a single CPU processor by means of precomputations and insertion of symmetry relations in the initial analytical expression of the TE bias matrix. We present as well in the last part of this research the first analytical results of the EE bias matrix calculations in the case of a CMB experiment using non-circular beams and incomplete sky coverage, and derive the corresponding results for the non-circular beams and full sky limit.Item Probing the nature of dark energy with 21-cm intensity mapping.(2020) Yohana, Elimboto Mwiki.; Ma, Yin-Zhe.Two approaches to measure the BAOs (baryon acoustic oscillations) with optical and radio telescopes, namely; galaxy redshift and intensity mapping (IM) surveys have been introduced and discussed in the literature. Among the two methods, the galaxy redshift survey has been used to great effect and is based on the detection and survey of millions of individual galaxies and measuring their redshifts by comparing templates of the spectral energy distributions of the light emitted from the galaxies with optical lines. IM is novel but a robust approach that focuses on surveys of extremely large volumes of galaxies without resolving each individual galaxy and can efficiently probe scales over redshift ranges inaccessible to the current galaxy redshift surveys. However, the IM survey has promisingly shown to have better overall sensitivity to the BAOs than the galaxy redshift survey but has a number of serious issues to be quantified. The most obvious of these issues is the presence of foreground contaminants from the Milky Way galaxy and extragalactic point sources which strongly dominate the neutral hydrogen (Hi) signal of our interest. Under this study, we are interested to realize the IM approach, pave the pathway, and optimize the scientific outputs of future radio experiments. We, therefore, carry out simulations and present forecasts of the cosmological constraints by employing Hi IM technique with three near-term radio telescopes by assuming 1 year of observational time. The telescopes considered here are Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), BAOs In Neutral Gas Observations (BINGO), and Square Kilometre Array Phase I (SKA-I) single-dish experiments. We further forecast the combined constraints of the three radio telescopes with Planck measurements. In order to tackle the foreground challenge, we develop strategies to model various sky components and employ an approach to clean them from our Milky Way galaxy and extragalactic point sources by considering a typical single-dish radio telescope. Particularly, the Principal Component Analysis foreground separation approach considered can indeed recover the cosmological Hi signal to high precision. We show that, although the approach may face some challenges, it can be fully realized on the selected range of angular scales.