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We introduce a non-perturbative method to constrain the amplitude of local-type primordial non-Gaussianity ($f_{\rm NL}$) using squeezed configurations of the CMB lensing convergence and cosmic shear bispectra. First, we use cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Samuel Goldstein , Oliver H. E. Philcox , J. Colin Hill , Angelo Esposito , Lam Hui

Lensing of the CMB by modes that are larger than the size of the survey dilates intrinsic scales in the temperature and polarization fields and coherently shifts their observed power spectra with respect to the ensemble or all-sky mean. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Alessandro Manzotti , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

We investigate the impact of non-Gaussian lensing deflections on measurements of the CMB lensing power spectrum. We find that the false assumption of their Gaussianity significantly biases these measurements in current and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Vanessa Böhm , Blake D. Sherwin , Jia Liu , J. Colin Hill , Marcel Schmittfull , Toshiya Namikawa

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

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

We compute the bispectrum induced in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarisation by the evolution of the primordial density perturbations using the second-order Boltzmann code SONG. We show that adding polarisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Guido W. Pettinari , Christian Fidler , Robert Crittenden , Kazuya Koyama , Antony Lewis , David Wands

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 study the degree to which the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity involving one tensor and two scalar fluctuations, focusing on the correlation of one polarization $B$ mode with two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers , Alex van Engelen , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

While usually cosmological initial conditions are assumed to be Gaussian, inflationary theories can predict a certain amount of primordial non-Gaussianity which can have an impact on the statistical properties of the lensing observables. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. Pace , L. Moscardini , M. Bartelmann , E. Branchini , K. Dolag , M. Grossi , S. Matarrese

We present a new method to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity using the large-scale modulation of the local lensing power spectrum. Our work extends our recently proposed $\pi$-field method for primordial non-Gaussianity estimation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Shi-Hui Zang , Moritz Münchmeyer

Lensing of the CMB generates a significant bispectrum, which should be detected by the Planck satellite at the 5-sigma level and is potentially a non-negligible source of bias for f_NL estimators of local non-Gaussianity. We extend current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor , Duncan Hanson

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation lensing is a promising tool to study the physics of early universe. In this work we probe the imprints of deviations from isotropy and scale invariance of primordial curvature perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram , Hassan Firouzjahi

After the precise observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum, attention is now being focused on the higher order statistics of the CMB anisotropies. Since linear evolution preserves the statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Babich , Matias Zaldarriaga

The CMB bispectrum generated by second-order effects at recombination can be calculated analytically when one of the three modes has a wavelength much longer than the other two and is outside the horizon at recombination. This was pointed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Paolo Creminelli , Cyril Pitrou , Filippo Vernizzi

Lensing of the CMB is affected by post-Born lensing, producing corrections to the convergence power spectrum and introducing field rotation. We show numerically that the lensing convergence power spectrum is affected at the $\lesssim 0.2\%$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 Geraint Pratten , Antony Lewis

Weak gravitational lensing changes the angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization in a characteristic way containing valuable information for cosmological parameter estimation and weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philipp Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Next-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on the mechanism by which perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Ballardini , William Luke Matthewson , Roy Maartens

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

We forecast how current ({\planck}) and future ({\prism}) cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments constrain the adiabatic mode and its admixtures with primordial isocurvature modes, using measurements of the reconstructed CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Simon Muya Kasanda , Kavilan Moodley

We present a set of formalisms for comparing, evolving and constraining primordial non-Gaussian models through the CMB bispectrum. We describe improved methods for efficient computation of the full CMB bispectrum for any general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 J. R. Fergusson , E. P. S. Shellard