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When a cosmic microwave background (CMB) photon travels from the surface of last scatter through spacetime metric perturbations, the polarization vector may rotate about its direction of propagation. This gravitational rotation is distinct…

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$ $Low density cosmic voids gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB), leaving a negative imprint on the CMB convergence $\kappa$. This effect provides insight into the distribution of matter within voids, and can also be…

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

The B modes generated by the lensing of CMB polarization are a primary target for the upcoming generation of experiments and can potentially constrain quantities such as the neutrino mass and dark energy equation of state. The net sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Kendrick M. Smith , Wayne Hu , Manoj Kaplinghat

The weak lensing effect on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) induces distortions in spatial pattern of CMB anisotropies, and statistical properties of CMB anisotropies become a weakly non-Gaussian field. We first summarize the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-17 Toshiya Namikawa

Gravitational interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with matter perturbations present along the line-of-sight to the surface of last scattering modifies the shape of the CMB anisotropy power spectrum. Here I focus on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 Radek Stompor

The next generation of ground-based CMB experiments aim to measure temperature and polarization fluctuations up to $\ell_{\rm max} \approx 5000$ over half of the sky. Combined with Planck data on large scales, this will provide improved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 William R. Coulton , P. Daniel Meerburg , David G. Baker , Selim Hotinli , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Alexander van Engelen

A stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) will affect the CMB anisotropies via weak lensing. Unlike weak lensing due to large scale structure which only deflects photon trajectories, a SGWB has an additional effect of rotating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Shabbir Shaikh , Suvodip Mukherjee , Aditya Rotti , Tarun Souradeep

Power spectra and cross-correlation measurements from the weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the cosmic shearing of faint galaxies images will help shed light on quantities hidden from the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Wayne Hu

[Abridged] The polarization of the CMB is widely recognized as a potential source of information about primordial gravitational waves. The gravitational wave contribution can be separated from the dominant CMB polarization created by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher M. Hirata , Abraham Loeb , Niayesh Afshordi

We present a fast, arbitrarily accurate method to simulate the effect of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and polarization fields by large scale structures. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-12 S. Basak , S. Prunet , K. Benabed

It is known that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations are modified by gravitational lensing since the angular positions of photons are altered by the metric perturbations. We reconsider this effect in the context…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ali Kaya

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by large-scale structure in the late universe is both a source of cosmological information and a potential contaminant of primordial gravity waves. Because lensing imprints growth of…

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

CMB anisotropies are modified by the weak lensing effect of intervening large scale structures on the photon path from the last scattering surface to the observer. This has to be accounted for when observational data of sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Jonathan Rocher , Karim Benabed , Francois Bouchet

Lensing of the CMB is an important effect, and is usually modelled by remapping the unlensed CMB fields by a lensing deflection. However the lensing deflections also change the photon path so that the emission angle is no longer orthogonal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-21 Antony Lewis , Alex Hall , Anthony Challinor

A detection of excess cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization on large scales allows the possibility of measuring not only the amplitude of these fluctuations but also their scale dependence, which can be parametrized as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gabrielle Simard , Duncan Hanson , Gil Holder

Un-doing the effect of gravitational lensing on the Cosmic Microwave Background (`de-lensing') is essential in shaping constraints on weak signals limited by lensing effects on the CMB, for example on a background of primordial…

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