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One of the major targets for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments is the detection of the primordial B-mode signal. Planning is under way for Stage-IV experiments that are projected to have instrumental noise small…

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Searches for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation data must account for significant contamination from gravitational lensing. Fortunately, the lensing effects can be partially removed by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron

The search for primordial gravitational waves is a central goal of cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. Isolating the characteristic $B$-mode polarization signal sourced by primordial gravitational waves is challenging for several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

The delensing procedure is an effective tool for removing lensing-induced $B$-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background to allow for deep searches of primordial $B$-modes. However, the delensing algorithm existing in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-01 Wei-Hsiang Teng , Chao-Lin Kuo , Jiun-Huei Proty Wu

The search for primordial $B$-mode polarization of the CMB is limited by the sample variance of $B$-modes produced at later times by gravitational lensing. Constraints can be improved by `delensing': using some proxy of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Simone Ferraro

We explore the potential use of the Radio Continuum (RC) survey conducted by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to remove (delens) the lensing-induced B-mode polarization and thus enhance future cosmic microwave background (CMB) searches for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Toshiya Namikawa , Daisuke Yamauchi , Blake Sherwin , Ryo Nagata

The most promising avenue for detecting primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation is through measurements of degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation. This approach must face the challenge posed by gravitational lensing of the CMB,…

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The B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background on large scales has been considered as a probe of gravitational waves from the cosmic inflation. Ongoing and future experiments will, however, suffer from contamination due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Toshiya Namikawa , Ryo Nagata

Delensing is an increasingly important technique to reverse the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thus reveal primordial signals the lensing may obscure. We present a first demonstration of delensing on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Patricia Larsen , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin , Daisy Mak

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 BICEP/Keck , SPTpol Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , C. A. Bischoff , L. E. Bleem , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , J. R. Cheshire , H. C. Chiang , T-L. Chou , R. Citron , J. Connors , C. Corbett Moran , J. Cornelison , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , M. Dierickx , M. A. Dobbs , L. Duband , W. Everett , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , T. St. Germaine , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , N. Gupta , G. Hall , M. Halpern , N. W. Halverson , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , J. W. Henning , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , L. Knox , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , A. Lowitz , A. Manzotti , J. J. McMahon , K. G. Megerian , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , L. Moncelsi , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Namikawa , T. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Palladino , S. Patil , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. L. Reichardt , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. Soliman , A. A. Stark , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , G. Wang , A. C. Weber , N. Whitehorn , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang

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

We present a first internal delensing of CMB maps, both in temperature and polarization, using the public foreground-cleaned (SMICA) Planck 2015 maps. After forming quadratic estimates of the lensing potential, we use the corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Julien Carron , Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor

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

The existence of a cosmic background of primordial gravitational waves (PGWB) is a robust prediction of inflationary cosmology, but it has so far evaded discovery. The most promising avenue of its detection is via measurements of Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Kai Yi , Yanan Fan , Jan Hamann , Pietro Liò , Yuguang Wang

We present a method to delens the acoustic peaks of the CMB temperature and polarization power spectra internally, using lensing maps reconstructed from the CMB itself. We find that when delensing CMB acoustic peaks with a lensing potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Neelima Sehgal , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Blake Sherwin , Alexander van Engelen

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 report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new estimator that extracts the lensing dipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , T. N. Varga , N. Whitehorn , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. S. Avva , D. Bacon , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , F. Bianchini , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , M. Costanzi , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , C. Feng , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jeltema , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , D. Li , M. Lima , A. Lowitz , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , C. Corbett Moran , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Carnero Rosell , E. Rozo , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , G. Wang , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , Y. Zhang

The effect of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and polarization will provide access to cosmological information that cannot be obtained from the primary anisotropies alone. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah Smith , Anthony Challinor , Graca Rocha

Impacts of observational systematic errors on the lensing analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization are investigated by numerical simulations. We model errors of gain, angle, and pointing in observation of the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Ryo Nagata , Toshiya Namikawa