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A Lensing Reconstruction of Primordial Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We discuss a possibility to directly reconstruct the CMB polarization field at the last scattering surface by accounting for modifications imposed by the gravitational lensing effect. The suggested method requires a tracer field of the large scale structure lensing potentials that deflected propagating CMB photons from the last scattering surface. This required information can come from a variety of observations on the large scale structure matter distribution, including convergence reconstructed from lensing shear studies involving galaxy shapes. In the case of so-called curl, or B,-modes of CMB polarization, the reconstruction allows one to identify the distinct signature of inflationary gravitational waves.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205306,
  title  = {A Lensing Reconstruction of Primordial Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization},
  author = {Asantha Cooray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205306},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures; PRD submitted