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BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data

Alessandro Carones , Sijil Jose , Aliza Mustafa , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

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keywords component separationmicrowave astronomycosmic microwave backgroundinternal linear combinationpython packageforeground removaldata analysis

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BROOM package reconstructs CMB and other microwave signals using minimum-variance linear combinations from multi-frequency data.

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The paper presents BROOM as a Python package that applies blind minimum-variance methods to separate components in microwave astronomical observations. It reconstructs signals with known spectral energy distributions, such as the cosmic microwave background, Sunyaev-Zeldovich effects, and foreground moments, in both temperature and polarization via Internal Linear Combination techniques. The package also enables blind recovery of coherent emission components with unknown properties through a Generalized Internal Linear Combination approach. Users gain additional tools to diagnose foreground complexity, estimate residual contamination across scales, generate realistic simulations, and compute power spectra. A sympathetic reader would care because the software offers an accessible, public way to analyze data from satellite and ground-based experiments while reducing reliance on detailed astrophysical models for contaminants.

Core claim

BROOM implements Internal Linear Combination methods to reconstruct known spectral signals such as the CMB from multi-frequency microwave maps in the presence of astrophysical and instrumental contaminants, and it provides a Generalized ILC framework for blind reconstruction of components with unknown covariance properties, with validation performed on simulations of full-sky satellite missions and ground-based experiments.

What carries the argument

Internal Linear Combination (ILC) and Generalized ILC (GILC) frameworks, which compute minimum-variance weights across frequency channels to isolate a target signal while suppressing contaminants.

Load-bearing premise

The minimum-variance ILC and GILC implementations correctly handle the mixture of astrophysical and instrumental contaminants in real data without introducing significant biases.

What would settle it

Running BROOM on actual satellite or ground-based microwave observations produces reconstructed maps whose measured residual contamination levels differ substantially from the levels obtained in the package's validation simulations.

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We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruction of signals with known spectral energy distributions, such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Sunyaev--Zeldovich distortions, or foreground moments, in both temperature and polarization through a suite of Internal Linear Combination (ILC) implementations, in the presence of astrophysical and instrumental contaminants. In addition, BROOM supports the blind reconstruction of coherent emission components with unknown covariance properties via a Generalized ILC (GILC) framework. Beyond component separation, the package provides tools to diagnose foreground complexity and to estimate residual contamination leaking into reconstructed maps across angular scales and sky regions. It also includes utilities to generate realistic microwave simulations for arbitrary CMB experiments and to compute angular power spectra of the resulting products. We present a comprehensive description and validation of the implemented pipelines in two representative experimental configurations: a full-sky satellite mission and a ground-based experiment. BROOM is publicly available, fully documented, and easily installable at https://github.com/alecarones/broom

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BROOM is a documented Python package that wraps standard ILC and GILC methods for CMB component separation plus some practical diagnostics and simulation utilities.

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BROOM packages up established minimum-variance techniques for separating known-spectrum signals like the CMB or SZ effect from contaminants in temperature and polarization maps. It also adds a GILC option for blind reconstruction of coherent components whose covariance is not known in advance. The package further supplies foreground diagnostics, residual leakage estimates across scales and sky patches, and utilities to generate realistic microwave simulations for arbitrary experiments. All of this is released as open, installable, documented code on GitHub and validated on two simulated setups: a full-sky satellite mission and a ground-based experiment.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces BROOM, a publicly available Python package implementing Internal Linear Combination (ILC) methods for reconstructing signals with known spectral energy distributions (e.g., CMB, Sunyaev-Zeldovich distortions, foreground moments) in temperature and polarization, along with a Generalized ILC (GILC) framework for blind reconstruction of coherent components with unknown covariance. It includes diagnostic tools for foreground complexity and residual contamination, utilities for generating realistic microwave simulations, and angular power spectrum computation. The package is validated through described pipelines on two simulated experimental setups: a full-sky satellite mission and a ground-based experiment.

Significance. If the implementations are correct as described, BROOM provides a documented, open-source tool for model-independent component separation that supports reproducible analyses in CMB and microwave astronomy. Credit is due for the public GitHub availability, full documentation, simulation utilities, and explicit validation on two distinct configurations (full-sky satellite and ground-based). These elements lower barriers for applying ILC/GILC techniques and enable users to assess residuals across scales and regions.

major comments (1)

[Validation section] Validation section: The description of the two experimental setups (full-sky satellite and ground-based) states that validation was performed but does not report quantitative metrics such as residual power spectra, bias levels, or cross-checks against input maps; this weakens the ability to confirm that the minimum-variance ILC and GILC implementations handle mixed astrophysical/instrumental contaminants without significant bias, as asserted in the abstract.

minor comments (3)

[Introduction] The abstract and introduction refer to 'a suite of ILC implementations' without enumerating the specific variants (e.g., standard ILC, constrained ILC) or their distinguishing features in a table or dedicated subsection.
[Methods] Notation for covariance matrices and weight vectors in the GILC framework should be defined explicitly with equations upon first use to aid readers unfamiliar with the extension.
[Figures] Figure captions for any diagnostic plots (e.g., residual contamination vs. angular scale) should include the exact sky region, frequency channels, and simulation parameters used.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript and for recommending minor revision. We address the major comment on the validation section below.

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Referee: [Validation section] Validation section: The description of the two experimental setups (full-sky satellite and ground-based) states that validation was performed but does not report quantitative metrics such as residual power spectra, bias levels, or cross-checks against input maps; this weakens the ability to confirm that the minimum-variance ILC and GILC implementations handle mixed astrophysical/instrumental contaminants without significant bias, as asserted in the abstract.

Authors: We agree that the validation section would benefit from explicit quantitative metrics to strengthen the claims regarding the performance of the ILC and GILC methods. In the revised manuscript, we will expand this section to report residual power spectra, bias levels in the reconstructed maps, and direct cross-checks against the input maps for both the full-sky satellite and ground-based setups. These additions will quantify the level of residual contamination across scales and confirm that the implementations recover the target signals without significant bias in the presence of mixed astrophysical and instrumental contaminants. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; standard ILC/GILC implementation with separate validation

full rationale

The paper presents BROOM as a software package implementing established Internal Linear Combination (ILC) and Generalized ILC (GILC) techniques for component separation of microwave signals with known or unknown SEDs. No derivation chain is claimed that reduces a prediction or result to its own inputs by construction. The central functionality is described via pipelines, diagnostic tools, simulation utilities, and validation on independent simulated datasets (full-sky satellite and ground-based configurations). No self-definitional equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations that close a loop are present in the provided text. The methods are standard in the field, and the package supplies separate diagnostics rather than deriving results from the same fitted quantities.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The work relies on standard domain assumptions of ILC methods without introducing new free parameters, axioms beyond those in the field, or invented entities.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Minimum-variance ILC assumptions including known spectral energy distributions for target signals and uncorrelated contaminants
Invoked throughout the description of component separation pipelines.

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