We discuss point sources foregrounds for the MAP experiment. We consider several possible strategies for removing them and we assess how the statistics of the CMB signal are affected by the residual sources. Assuming a power law distribution for the point sources, we propose a method aimed to determine the slope of the distribution from the analysis of the moments of the observed maps. The same...

We present a method for generating linearized images that consist of only diffuse reflection from images taken under near point light sources. Previous photometric linearization method cannot work under near point light sources, since it assumes parallel light. For satisfying this assumption, our method utilizes a photometric linearization method by dividing images into small regions. It also s...

The detection of polarized sources in the WMAP 5-year data is a very difficult task. The maps are dominated by instrumental noise and only a handful of sources show up as clear peaks in the Q and U maps. Optimal linear filters applied at the position of known bright sources detect with a high level of significance a polarized flux P from many more sources, but estimates of P are liable to biase...

21 cm tomography is emerging as a promising probe of the cosmological dark ages and the epoch of reionization, as well as a tool for observational cosmology in general. However, serious sources of foreground contamination must be subtracted for experimental efforts to be viable. In this paper, we focus on the removal of unresolved extragalactic point sources with smooth spectra, and evaluate ho...

We consider the inverse problem of discovering the location of a source from very sparse point measurements in a bounded domain that contains impenetrable (and possibly unknown) obstacles. We present an adaptive algorithm for determining the measurement locations, and ultimately, the source locations. Specifically, we investigate source discovery for the Laplace operator, though the approach ca...