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Statistical challenges in the analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation. (English) Zbl 1160.62097

Summary: An enormous amount of observations on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation has been collected in the last decade, and much more data are expected in the near future from planned or operating satellite missions. These datasets are a goldmine of information for cosmology and theoretical physics; their efficient exploitation posits several intriguing challenges from the statistical point of view. We review a number of open problems in CMB data analysis and we present applications to observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission.

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62P35 Applications of statistics to physics
85A40 Astrophysical cosmology
85A25 Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics
62M40 Random fields; image analysis
62M15 Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis

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