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The reconstruction of the CMB lensing potential is based on a Taylor expansion of lensing effects which is known to have poor convergence properties. For lensing of temperature fluctuations, an understanding of the higher order terms in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ethan Anderes

In the current era of high-precision CMB experiments, the imprint of gravitational lensing on the CMB temperature is exploited as a source of valuable information. Especially the reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced $B$ modes. We introduce a lensing spectrum estimator and its likelihood for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

We introduce a new estimator of the CMB lensing power spectrum, together with its likelihood, based on iterative lensing reconstruction. Despite the increased complexity of the lensing maps, this estimator shares similarities with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

Future experiments will produce high-resolution temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and are expected to reveal the signature of gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structures. We construct all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

Weak gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structure induces a distinct signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that can be used to reconstruct the weak-lensing displacement map. Estimators for individual Fourier modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Kesden , Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski

The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential has established itself by now as a robust way of probing the physics of large-scale structure growth. The most common estimators of the lensing potential are derived under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Dominic Beck , Giulio Fabbian , Josquin Errard

We develop a method of reconstructing the lensing field from lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps in real space as an alternative to the harmonic space estimators currently in use by extending an existing real space lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Heather Prince , Kavilan Moodley , Jethro Ridl , Martin Bucher

CMB and lensing reconstruction power spectra are powerful probes of cosmology. However they are correlated, since the CMB power spectra are lensed and the lensing reconstruction is constructed using CMB multipoles. We perform a full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-20 Julien Peloton , Marcel Schmittfull , Antony Lewis , Julien Carron , Oliver Zahn

Deep surveys of the CMB polarization have more information on the lensing signal than the quadratic estimators (QE) can capture. We showed in a recent work that a CMB lensing power spectrum built from a single optimized CMB lensing mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

I describe a method to estimate response matrices of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing power spectra estimators to the true sky power under realistic conditions. Applicable to all lensing reconstruction pipelines based on quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Julien Carron

We reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential on the latest Planck CMB PR4 (NPIPE) maps, which include slightly more data than the 2018 PR3 release, and implement quadratic estimators using more optimal filtering.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Julien Carron , Mark Mirmelstein , Antony Lewis

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 study the general properties of the CMB temperature four-point function, specifically its harmonic analogue the angular trispectrum, and illustrate its utility in finding optimal quadratic statistics through the weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Wayne Hu

Over the past decade, the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard technique used to reconstruct the CMB lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro

We extend our maximum likelihood method for reconstructing the cluster-mass cross-correlation from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and develop new estimators that utilize six different quadratic combinations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Jaiyul Yoo , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

Gravitational lensing provides a significant source of cosmological information in modern CMB parameter analyses. It is measured in both the power spectrum and trispectrum of the temperature fluctuations. These observables are often treated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Marcel M. Schmittfull , Anthony Challinor , Duncan Hanson , Antony Lewis

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

We use the modified Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm to reconstruct the Primordial Power Spectrum from the Weak Lensing Power spectrum reconstructed from the CMB anisotropies. This provides an independent window to observe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Rajorshi Sushovan Chandra , Tarun Souradeep

We present new methods for lensing reconstruction from CMB temperature fluctuations which have smaller mean-field and reconstruction noise bias corrections than current lensing estimators, with minimal loss of signal-to-noise. These biases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-08 Toshiya Namikawa , Duncan Hanson , Ryuichi Takahashi
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