Speaker
Will Coulton
Description
Observations of the millimetre sky contain a wealth of signals from across the history of the Universe. Current observations have reached the sensitivity where we able to make precision measurements of the signals sourced by the large-scale structure of the Universe, known as CMB secondary anisotropies. Optimally analyzing many of these signals is challenging as CMB secondaries are highly non-Gaussian and thus it is challenging to derive sufficient statistics that extract all their astrophysical and cosmological information. In this presentation I will introduce the Backlight program that leverages a set of realistic non-Gaussian mocks of CMB secondaries and correlated signals to develop novel analysis methods.