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Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and imprints a characteristic pattern onto it. The distortions depend on the projected matter density between today and redshift $z \sim 1100$. In this paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Matias Zaldarriaga , Uros Seljak

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 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

Detailed measurements of the CMB lensing signal are an important scientific goal of ongoing ground-based CMB polarization experiments, which are mapping the CMB at high resolution over small patches of the sky. In this work we simulate CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Ruth Pearson , Blake Sherwin , 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

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

Upcoming ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will provide CMB maps with high sensitivity and resolution that can be used for high fidelity lensing reconstruction. However, the sky coverage will be incomplete and the noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Mark Mirmelstein , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

We present two novel methods for the estimation of the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We assume an absolute CMB experiment with arbitrary asymmetric beams and arbitrary sky coverage. The methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Elina Keihänen , Kimmo Kiiveri , Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Martin Reinecke

The lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful tool for our study of the distribution of matter in the universe. Currently, the quadratic estimator (EQ) method, which is widely used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Yang-Jie Yan , Jun-Qing Xia

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

We propose a method to extract the projected power spectrum of density perturbations from the distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The distortions are imprinted onto the CMB by the gravitational lensing effect and can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

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

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is a well-known probe of the non-Gaussianity of primordial perturbations. Just as the intervening large-scale structure modifies the CMB angular power spectrum through weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray , Devdeep Sarkar , Paolo Serra

Hu [Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 043007] has presented a harmonic-space method for calculating the effects of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the full sky. Computing the lensed power spectra to first order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Challinor , Gayoung Chon

The large-angle, low multipole cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a unique view of the largest angular scales in the Universe. Study of these scales is hampered by the facts that we have only one Universe to observe, only a few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Craig J. Copi , Dragan Huterer , Dominik J. Schwarz , Glenn D. Starkman

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 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

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 propose an estimator defined in real space for the reconstruction of the weak lensing potential due to the intervening large scale structure from high resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background. This estimator was motivated as an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 C. S. Carvalho , K. Moodley

The effects of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been measured at high significance with existing data and will be measured even more precisely in future surveys. Reversing the effects of lensing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers , Cynthia Trendafilova , Daniel Green , Alexander van Engelen