A novel approach to reconstructing signals of isotropy violation from a
  masked CMB sky
  Statistical isotropy (SI) is one of the fundamental assumptions made in
cosmological model building. This assumption is now being rigorously tested
using the almost full sky measurements of the CMB anisotropies. A major hurdle
in any such analysis is to handle the large biases induced due to the process
of masking. We have developed a new method of analysis, using the bipolar
spherical harmonic basis functions, in which we semi-analytically evaluate the
modifications to SI violation induced by the mask. The method developed here is
generic and can be potentially used to search for any arbitrary form of SI
violation. We specifically demonstrate the working of this method by recovering
the Doppler boost signal from a set of simulated, masked CMB skies.
