bigbounce/spin-torsion cosmology research program
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SurveysPlanck

Planck CMB

Planck 2018 CMB temperature + polarization map, analyzed as image patches. Native convolutional autoencoder with GAL080 galactic mask (|b|>=20 deg). Sky-region tier of the Path-C catalog (not point sources).

QC PASS
20K patches
200 anomalies (1%)
Microwave (30-857 GHz)
Readiness
QC PASS
Planck

Path-C native retrain: QC PASS. val_loss=0.4437. 500/500=100% injection-recovery at 5sigma. Note: 200 patches are CMB sky-region detections, not point sources — exclude from cross-matching against object catalogs.

Cost~$1
Runtime~3 min
Sources20K patches
Anomalies200
Rate1%
BandMicrowave
Key Findings
Results that define how this survey should be used in the paper set.
  • 01v2: 193 anomalies from 19,296 masked patches
  • 02val_loss=0.138 (v1 was 0.831 without mask)
  • 03Top anomaly: RA=208.5°, Dec=-21.2° (mid-sky, not poles)
  • 04Galactic mask successfully eliminated contamination
Pipeline
ModelPatch autoencoder with galactic mask
WavelengthMicrowave (30-857 GHz)
Cost~$1
Runtime~3 min
Top Anomalies
RankRADecScoreType
#1208.5deg-21.2deg63.00
#2210.1deg-21.1deg42.30
#3279.7deg-33.2deg15.30