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Enhancing Primordial B-mode Detection: Comprehensive Delensing Pipelines for Improved Sensitivity to $r$

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-11-27 v4

Abstract

Recognizing the impact of contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by Large Scale Structure, we examine delensing methods to enhance sensitivity to the tensor-to-scalar ratio rr in primordial B-mode detection experiments. This study presents a realistic pipeline to improve rr constraints using foreground-cleaned maps with negligible residuals. The pipeline, based on simulations, is adaptable for future experiments. We focus on two delensing approaches: (1) subtracting the gradient-order lensing B-mode template, computed by convolving the E-mode with the lensing potential, from the observed B-mode signal; and (2) remapping observations using the estimated inverse deflection angle. For parameter constraints, we employ three models to reduce rr uncertainty and bias, finding consistent uncertainties across models, though biases vary due to the multipole-dependence of the delensing fraction. %We demonstrate the pipeline using simulated maps from future CMB polarization experiments, including a small-aperture (sub-1m) telescope, a large-aperture (6m) telescope, and a future space mission (3m). We demonstrated this pipeline using simulated observation maps from future CMB polarization experiments, which included current representative ground-based small aperture telescopes (sub-1m), next-generation ground-based large aperture telescopes (6m), and highly competitive future space-based medium aperture missions (3m). Results show a delensing efficiency of 40\% with the small-aperture telescope alone, increasing to 65\% when combined with the large-aperture telescope, and 80\% with the satellite mission. These lead to reductions in rr uncertainty by 46\% for ground-based and 63\% for space missions. The most promising method adds the lensing template B-mode as an additional frequency channel, minimizing bias on rr.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.16726,
  title  = {Enhancing Primordial B-mode Detection: Comprehensive Delensing Pipelines for Improved Sensitivity to $r$},
  author = {Wen-Zheng Chen and Yang Liu and Siyu Li and Bin Hu and Hong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16726},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

38 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, published in JCAP

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