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We present a self-contained description of everything needed to write a program that calculates the CMB power spectrum for the standard model of cosmology (LCDM). This includes the equations used, assumptions and approximations imposed on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Petter Callin

Gravitational lensing information from the two and higher point statistics of the CMB temperature and polarization fields are intrinsically correlated because they are lensed by the same realization of structure between last scattering and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

With the advent of a new generation of cosmological experiments that will provide high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and galaxies in the large-scale structure, it is pertinent to examine the potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-27 Shu-Fan Chen , Hayden Lee , Cora Dvorkin

The cosmic microwave background and large scale structure are complementary probes to investigate the early and late time universe. After the current accomplishment of the high accuracies of CMB measurements, accompanying precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Seokcheon Lee

These notes are very much work-in-progress and simply intended to showcase, in various degrees of details (and rigour), some of the cosmology calculations that class_sz can do. We describe the class_sz code in C, Python and Jax. Based on…

We present a new compilation of inferences of the linear 3D matter power spectrum at redshift $z\,{=}\,0$ from a variety of probes spanning several orders of magnitude in physical scale and in cosmic history. We develop a new lower-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Solène Chabanier , Marius Millea , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille

Weak lensing of the CMB changes the unlensed temperature anisotropy and polarization power spectra. Accounting for the lensing effect will be crucial to obtain accurate parameter constraints from sensitive CMB observations. Methods for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Challinor , Antony Lewis

Calculations of the Cosmic Microwave Background lensing power implemented into the standard cosmological codes such as CAMB and CLASS usually treat the surface of last scatter as an infinitely thin screen. However, since the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Boryana Hadzhiyska , David Spergel , Joanna Dunkley

We present a new open-source code that calculates one-loop power auto- and cross-power spectra for matter fields and biased tracers in real and redshift space. These spectra incorporate all ingredients required for a direct application to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Marko Simonović

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

Weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) changes CMB statistics in a nontrivial way, allowing for reconstruction of the lensing potential and the use of these reconstructed maps in determining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Cynthia Trendafilova

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

We present nanoCMB, a minimal but accurate calculator for the unlensed CMB temperature and polarisation angular power spectra ($C_\ell^{TT}$, $C_\ell^{EE}$, $C_\ell^{TE}$) of flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies. Written in $\sim$1400 lines of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Adam Moss

We give a brief review of the known effects of a dynamical vacuum cosmological component, the dark energy, on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We distinguish between a "classic" class of observables, used so far to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 Carlo Baccigalupi , Viviana Acquaviva

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

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

The Planck experiment has measured the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular spectrum with unprecedented accuracy, and these results are likely to remain the state-of-the art for a decade or more. Since these measurements are going to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julia Stadler , Céline Bœhm

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley

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

We examine the level of agreement between low redshift weak lensing data and the CMB using measurements from the CFHTLenS and Planck+WMAP polarization. We perform an independent analysis of the CFHTLenS six bin tomography results of Heymans…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 Niall MacCrann , Joe Zuntz , Sarah Bridle , Bhuvnesh Jain , Matthew R. Becker