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LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: improved full-sky reconstruction of the gravitational lensing potential through the combination of Planck and LiteBIRD data

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons are deflected by large-scale structure through gravitational lensing. This secondary effect introduces higher-order correlations in CMB anisotropies, which are used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 M. Ruiz-Granda , P. Diego-Palazuelos , C. Gimeno-Amo , P. Vielva , A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Lembo , R. Nagata , M. Remazeilles , D. Adak , E. Allys , A. Anand , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , A. Besnard , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , F. Bouchet , T. Brinckmann , F. Cacciotti , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , E. de la Hoz , M. De Lucia , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Ichiki , H. Jiang , B. Jost , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , V. Maranchery , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , M. Najafi , A. Novelli , F. Noviello , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , F. Piacentini , G. Piccirilli , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , Y. Sakurai , J. Sanghavi , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , R. M. Sullivan , Y. Takase , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , Y. Zhou

Probing supervoids with weak lensing

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has non-Gaussian features in the temperature fluctuations. An anomalous cold spot surrounded with a hot ring, called the Cold Spot is one of such features. If a large underdence region (supervoid)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yuichi Higuchi , Kaiki Taro Inoue

Predicting CMB dust foreground using galactic 21 cm data

Understanding large-angular-scale galactic foregrounds is crucial for future CMB experiments aiming to detect $B$-mode polarization from primordial gravitational waves. Traditionally, the dust component has been separated using its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Guangyu Zhang , Chi-Ting Chiang , Chris Sheehy , Anže Slosar , Jian Wang

Can weak lensing surveys confirm BICEP2 ?

The detection of B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology and physics. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin , Fabian Schmidt

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dünner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. Hamada , G. Hall , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , B. D. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on the large-scale structure of the Universe. In a forthcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Y. Omori , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , O. Friedrich , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , L. E. Bleem , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , T. M. Crawford , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , W. L. K. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , R. Chown , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , A. T. Crites , M. E. S. Pereira , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , N. W. Halverson , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , L. Knox , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , M. March , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , T. Natoli , S. Padin , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , J. E. Ruhl , E. Sanchez , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , R. Williamson

CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

We measure the cross-correlation between the galaxy density in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data and the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as reconstructed with the Planck satellite and the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 T. Giannantonio , P. Fosalba , R. Cawthon , Y. Omori , M. Crocce , F. Elsner , B. Leistedt , S. Dodelson , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Gaztanaga , G. Holder , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Kirk , A. H. Bauer , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , J. Carretero , T. M. Crawford , R. Crittenden , D. Huterer , B. Jain , E. Krause , C. L. Reichardt , A. J. Ross , G. Simard , B. Soergel , A. Stark , K. T. Story , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz

How to detect gravitational waves through the cross-correlation of the galaxy distribution with the CMB polarization

Thompson scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off of free electrons during the reionization epoch induces a correlation between the distribution of galaxies and the polarization pattern of the CMB, the magnitude of which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Esfandiar Alizadeh , Christopher M. Hirata

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over $9400$ sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) CMB dataset, which consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Frank J. Qu , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Dongwon Han , Kevin T. Crowley , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Rui An , Zachary Atkins , Jason E. Austermann , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia Stefano Battistelli , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Emily Biermann , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Hongbo Cai , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Valentina Capalbo , Felipe Carrero , Julien Carron , Anthony Challinor , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Rodrigo Córdova Rosado , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , William Coulton , Roohi Dalal , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Peter Doze , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Valentina Fanfani , Max Fankhanel , Gerrit Farren , Simone Ferraro , Rodrigo Freundt , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Xavier Garrido , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Yilun Guan , Mark Halpern , Ian Harrison , Matthew Hasselfield , Erin Healy , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Kent Irwin , Giovanni Isopi , Hidde T. Jense , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Adrien La Posta , Alex Lague , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Zack Li , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Niall MacCrann , Amanda MacInnis , Diego Maldonado , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Gabriela A. Marques , Jeff McMahon , Yogesh Mehta , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Thomas W. Morris , Tony Mroczkowski , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Federico Radiconi , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Tai Sakuma , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Shabbir Shaikh , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Rita Sonka , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Eric R. Switzer , Niklas Tampier , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Joel Ulluom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Cristian Vargas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Kaiwen Zhang

Weak Lensing: Prospects for Measuring Cosmological Parameters

Weak lensing of galaxies by large scale structure can potentially measure cosmological quantities as accurately as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the relation between observables and fundamental parameters is more complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

Mass Reconstruction with CMB Polarization

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure of the Universe induces high-order correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We construct minimum variance estimators of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Takemi Okamoto

BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales

(abridged for arXiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves in the B-mode power spectrum around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-24 P. A. R Ade , R. W. Aikin , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , P. Mason , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon

A novel CMB polarization likelihood package for large angular scales built from combined WMAP and Planck LFI legacy maps

We present a CMB large-scale polarization dataset obtained by combining WMAP Ka, Q and V with Planck 70 GHz maps. We employ the legacy frequency maps released by the WMAP and Planck collaborations and perform our own Galactic foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 U. Natale , L. Pagano , M. Lattanzi , M. Migliaccio , L. P. Colombo , A. Gruppuso , P. Natoli , G. Polenta

Cosmological constraints from unWISE and Planck CMB lensing tomography

A number of recent, low-redshift, lensing measurements hint at a universe in which the amplitude of lensing is lower than that predicted from the $\Lambda$CDM model fit to the data of the Planck CMB mission. Here we use the auto- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Alex Krolewski , Simone Ferraro , Martin White

A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data

We use South Pole Telescope data from 2008 and 2009 to detect the non-Gaussian signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produced by gravitational lensing and to measure the power spectrum of the projected gravitational potential.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. van Engelen , R. Keisler , O. Zahn , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , J. Dudley , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson

Skewing the CMB$\times$LSS: a Fast Method for Bispectrum Analysis

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements and tomographic galaxy surveys are expected to provide us with high-precision data sets in the coming years, thus paving the way for fruitful cross-correlation analyses. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Priyesh Chakraborty , Shu-Fan Chen , Cora Dvorkin

Future detectability of gravitational-wave induced lensing from high-sensitivity CMB experiments

We discuss the future detectability of gravitational-wave induced lensing from high-sensitivity cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Gravitational waves can induce a rotational component of the weak-lensing deflection angle,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 Toshiya Namikawa , Daisuke Yamauchi , Atsushi Taruya

Efficient estimation of rotation-induced bias to reconstructed CMB lensing power spectrum

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and dark energy equation of state.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan , Toshiya Namikawa , Arthur Kosowsky

The local B-polarization of the CMB: a very sensitive probe of cosmic defects

We present a new and especially powerful signature of cosmic strings and other topological or non-topological defects in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that even if defects contribute 1% or less in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ruth Durrer , Elisa Fenu , Daniel G. Figueroa , Martin Kunz

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Lensing of CMB Temperature and Polarization Derived from Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields obtained by cross-correlating the reconstructed convergence signal from the first season of ACTPol data at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Alexander van Engelen , Blake D. Sherwin , Neelima Sehgal , Graeme E. Addison , Rupert Allison , Nick Battaglia , Francesco de Bernardis , Erminia Calabrese , Kevin Coughlin , Devin Crichton , J. Richard Bond , Rahul Datta , Rolando Dunner , Joanna Dunkley , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Amir Hajian , Matthew Hasselfield , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Loic Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Charles Munson , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Mike Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Christine Pappas , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Jonathan L. Sievers , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack