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We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

The anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) induced by the scalar and tensor metric perturbations are computed in the long-wavelength limit. It is found that the large-scale polarization of CMBR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ka Lok Ng , Kin-Wang Ng

Simulated maps of the microwave background (CMB) radiation are generally created using one of two methods: all-sky simulations use the spherical harmonic transform, while maps covering small areas approximate the sky as flat, allowing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Mariona Giner Mascarell , Emory F. Bunn

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) stands as a pivotal source for studying weak gravitational lensing. While the lensed CMB aids in constraining cosmological parameters, it simultaneously smooths the original CMB's features. The angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

This study presents a computational framework for evaluating the detectability of white hole-induced gravitational wave signals and their imprints on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The approach integrates stochastic gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Antonios Valamontes , Ioannis Adamopoulos

We discuss the non-Gaussian contribution to the power spectrum covariance of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies resulting through weak gravitational lensing angular deflections and the correlation of deflections with secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a relict of the early universe. Its perfect 2.725K blackbody spectrum demonstrates that the universe underwent a hot, ionized early phase; its anisotropy (about 80 \mu K rms) provides strong evidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi

The analysis of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has become an extremely valuable tool for cosmology. We even have hopes that planned CMB anisotropy experiments may revolutionize cosmology. Together with determinations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ruth Durrer

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.…

On large scales, the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) reflect not only the primordial field but also the energy gain when photons traverse decaying gravitational potentials of large scales structure, the Integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-31 A. Manzotti , S. Dodelson

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys are expected to provide valuable information about the primordial universe by creating maps of the mass along the line of sight. Traditional tools for creating these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Peikai Li , Ipek Ilayda Onur , Scott Dodelson , Shreyas Chaudhari

Deep cosmic microwave background polarization experiments allow a very precise internal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing signal in pricinple. For this aim, likelihood-based or Bayesian methods are typically necessary, where very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Martin Reinecke , Sebastian Belkner , Julien Carron

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of cosmology, providing insight into structure formation and the evolution of the universe. Current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yuka Nakato , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira , Yuuki Omori , Abhishek S. Maniyar

General relativity (GR) predicts concordant trajectories for photons and gravitational waves (GW). We propose a new multi-messenger avenue (GW-CMB-CMB) to prove this aspect of fundamental physics by cross-correlating the GW signal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Joseph Silk

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are a powerful probe of the early universe, and have largely contributed to establishing the current standard cosmological model. To extract the information encoded in those tiny…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Simon Biquard

The rapidly improving precision of measurements of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) also requires a corresponding increase in the precision of theoretical modeling. A commonly made approximation is to model the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Vanessa Böhm , Marcel Schmittfull , Blake D. Sherwin

The theoretical basis for the prediction of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background is very well developed. Very low amplitude density and temperature perturbations produce small gravitational effects, leading to an anisotropy that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Wright

Cosmological simulation of gravitational weak lensing in open models is treated using the direct integration method, which is independent of the mult-lens-plane method. Statistical averages of optical quantuties (the convergencen shear and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenji Tomita

An incomplete sky coverage poses difficulties in the extraction of the weak lensing information from the CMB. We test the reconstruction of the weak lensing convergence from CMB maps to which masks of point sources have been applied. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 C. Sofia Carvalho , Ismael Tereno

We simulate Planck observations by adopting a detailed model of the microwave sky including monopole, dipole, anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and galactic and extragalactic foregrounds. We estimate the impact of main…