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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

Gravitational lensing of the CMB is a valuable cosmological signal that correlates to tracers of large-scale structure and acts as a important source of confusion for primordial $B$-mode polarization. State-of-the-art lensing reconstruction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

We use an iterative generalized least squares map-making algorithm, in conjunction with Monte Carlo techniques, to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , G. de Gasperis , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

Reconstruction of gravitational lensing effects in the CMB from current and upcoming surveys is still dominated by temperature anisotropies. Extragalactic foregrounds in temperature maps can induce significant biases in the lensing power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Frank J. Qu , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization field has been recognized as a potentially valuable probe of the cosmological density field. We apply likelihood-based techniques to the problem of lensing of CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is an important cosmological tool that allows us to learn about the structure, composition and evolution of the Universe. Upcoming CMB experiments, such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Mark Mirmelstein , Giulio Fabbian , Antony Lewis , Julien Peloton

We present the optimal convergence and shear estimators for lensing reconstruction from the cosmic microwave background temperature field. This generalizes the deflection estimator, is sensitive to non-lensing modes, provides internal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

We present efficient algorithms for CMB lensing simulation and power spectrum es- timation for flat-sky CMB polarization maps. We build a pure B-mode estimator to remedy E to B leakage due to partial sky coverage. We show that our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-14 Thibaut Louis , Sigurd Næss , Sudeep Das , Joanna Dunkley , Blake Sherwin

We present an efficient implementation of Wiener filtering of real-space linear field and optimal quadratic estimator of its power spectrum Band-powers. We first recast the field reconstruction into an optimization problem, which we solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Uros Seljak , Grigor Aslanyan

Forthcoming high-resolution observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation will generate datasets many orders of magnitude larger than have been obtained to date. The size and complexity of such datasets presents a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Julian Borrill

We present a new method for delensing $B$ modes of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a lensing potential reconstructed from the same realization of the CMB polarization (CMB internal delensing). The $B$-mode delensing is required…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Toshiya Namikawa

We have developed a fast, accurate and generally applicable method for inferring the power spectrum and its uncertainties from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of inhomogeneous and correlated noise. For maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. Doré , L. Knox , A. Peel

We develop a method for calculating the correlation structure of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) using Feynman diagrams, when the CMB has been modified by gravitational lensing, Faraday rotation, patchy reionization, or other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Amit P. S. Yadav

We develop a new method for reconstructing cluster mass profiles and large-scale structure from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). By analyzing the likelihood of CMB lensing, we analytically prove that standard quadratic estimators for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jaiyul Yoo , Matias Zaldarriaga

We investigate the tolerance for systematic errors in lensing analysis applied to a patchwork map of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization. We focus on the properties of the individual polarization maps that comprise the patchwork and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Ryo Nagata , Toshiya Namikawa

We use statistical inference theory to explore the constraints from future galaxy weak lensing (cosmic shear) surveys combined with the current CMB constraints on cosmological parameters, focusing particularly on the running of the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata , Patrick McDonald , Uros Seljak

We study reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum from CMB temperature data, with an eye to the Planck experiment. We work with the optimal quadratic estimator of Okamoto and Hu, which we characterize thoroughly in application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 Duncan Hanson , Anthony Challinor , George Efstathiou , Pawel Bielewicz

In this paper we develop a novel needlet-based estimator to investigate the cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps and large-scale structure (LSS) data. We compare this estimator with its harmonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Federico Bianchini , Alessandro Renzi , Domenico Marinucci

The precision anticipated from next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will create opportunities for characteristically new insights into cosmology. Secondary anisotropies of the CMB will have an increased importance in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

We reconstruct shear maps and angular power spectra from simulated weakly lensed total intensity (TT) and polarised (EB) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, obtained using Born approximated ray-tracing through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-04 Claudia Antolini , Yabebal Fantaye , Matteo Martinelli , Carmelita Carbone , Carlo Baccigalupi