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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

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

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is gravitationally lensed by large-scale structure, which distorts observations of the primordial anisotropies in any given direction. Averaged over the sky, this important effect is routinely modelled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 G. Fabbian , J. Carron , A. Lewis , M. Lembo

The lensing signals involved in CMB polarization maps have already been measured with ground-based experiments such as SPTpol and POLARBEAR, and would become important as a probe of cosmological and astrophysical issues in the near future.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Ryo Nagata

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

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

Several recent papers have studied lensing of the CMB by large-scale structures, which probes the projected matter distribution from $z=10^3$ to $z\simeq 0$. This interest is motivated in part by upcoming high resolution, high sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Alexandre Amblard , Chris Vale , Martin White

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is the leading non-linear effect on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The integrated line-of-sight mass that causes the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Alba Kalaja , Giorgio Orlando , Aleksandr Bowkis , Anthony Challinor , P. Daniel Meerburg , Toshiya Namikawa

Unprecedentedly precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) data are expected from ongoing and near-future CMB Stage-III and IV surveys, which will yield reconstructed CMB lensing maps with effective resolution approaching several arcminutes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Jia Liu , J. Colin Hill , Blake D. Sherwin , Andrea Petri , Vanessa Böhm , Zoltán Haiman

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

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

Observed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps are contaminated by foregrounds, some of which are usually masked to perform cosmological analyses. If masks are correlated to the lensing signal, such as those removing extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Margherita Lembo , Giulio Fabbian , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

Gravitational lensing of the microwave background by the intervening dark matter mainly arises from large-angle fluctuations in the projected gravitational potential and hence offers a unique opportunity to study the physics of the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Wayne Hu

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

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 study heterogeneous quantities that efficiently cross-correlate the lensing information encoded in CMB polarization and large-scale structures recovered from weak lensing galaxy surveys. These quantities allow us to take advantage of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Benabed , F. Bernardeau , L. Van Waerbeke

Large scale structure deflects cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. Since large angular scales in the large scale structure contribute significantly to the gravitational lensing effect, a realistic simulation of CMB lensing requires a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudeep Das , Paul Bode

Upcoming surveys will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing power spectrum in exquisite detail, allowing for strong constraints on the sum of neutrino masses among other cosmological parameters. Standard CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Delon Shen , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

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

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys are expected to provide valuable information about the primordial universe by creating maps of the mass along the line of sight. Traditional tools for creating these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Peikai Li , Ipek Ilayda Onur , Scott Dodelson , Shreyas Chaudhari