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CMB lensing from current and upcoming wide-field CMB experiments such as AdvACT, SPT-3G and Simons Observatory relies heavily on temperature (vs. polarization). In this regime, foreground contamination to the temperature map produces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-20 Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

The measurement and characterization of the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is key goal of the current and next generation of CMB experiments. We perform a case study of a three-channel balloon-borne CMB experiment…

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Weak gravitational lensing from large-scale structure enhances and reduces the fluxes from extragalactic point sources with an rms amplitude of order 15%. In cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, sources exceeding some flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Max Tegmark , Jens Villumsen

We develop a Maximum Likelihood estimator (MLE) to measure the masses of galaxy clusters through the impact of gravitational lensing on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that, at…

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

The power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing will be measured to sub-percent precision with upcoming surveys, enabling tight constraints on the sum of neutrino masses and other cosmological parameters. Measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kendrick M. Smith , Blake D. Sherwin , Sigurd Naess

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

Extragalactic foregrounds are known to generate significant biases in temperature-based CMB lensing reconstruction. Several techniques, which include ``source hardening'' and ``shear-only estimators'' have been proposed to mitigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

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 temperature fluctuations and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are now a well-known probe of the Universe at an infant age of 400,000 years. During the transit to us from the surface of last scattering, the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-19 Joseph Smidt , Asantha Cooray , Alexandre Amblard , Shahab Joudaki , Dipak Munshi , Mario G. Santos , Paolo Serra

In the current era of high-precision CMB experiments, the imprint of gravitational lensing on the CMB temperature is exploited as a source of valuable information. Especially the reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

A promising way to measure the distribution of matter on small scales (k ~ 10 hMpc^-1) is to use gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). CMB-HD, a proposed high-resolution, low-noise millimeter survey over half the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Dongwon Han , Neelima Sehgal

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing is an integrated effect whose kernel is greater than half the peak value in the range $1<z<5$. Measuring this effect offers a powerful tool to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Toshiya Namikawa , Benjamin Bose , François R. Bouchet , Ryuichi Takahashi , Atsushi Taruya

Clusters of galaxies, being the largest collapsed structures in the universe, offer valuable insights into the nature of cosmic evolution. Precise calibration of the mass of clusters can be obtained by extracting their gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sayan Saha , 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

The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential has established itself by now as a robust way of probing the physics of large-scale structure growth. The most common estimators of the lensing potential are derived under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Dominic Beck , Giulio Fabbian , Josquin Errard

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 cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature bispectrum is currently the most precise tool for constraining primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). The Planck temperature data tightly constrain the amplitude of local-type NG: $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 J. Colin Hill

The search for primordial $B$-mode polarization of the CMB is limited by the sample variance of $B$-modes produced at later times by gravitational lensing. Constraints can be improved by `delensing': using some proxy of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Simone Ferraro