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Cross-correlations between Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and $y$-spectral distortions anisotropies have been previously proposed as a way to measure the local bispectrum parameter $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}$ in a range of scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Andrea Ravenni , Michele Liguori , Nicola Bartolo , Maresuke Shiraishi

We investigate the origin of the large clustering signal detected in the angular distribution of the radio sources in the TGSS catalog. To do so, we cross-correlate the angular position of the radio sources with the Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Giulia Piccirilli , Marina Migliaccio , Enzo Branchini , Arianna Dolfi

We outline the expected constraints on non-Gaussianity from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with current and future experiments, focusing on both the third (f_{NL}) and fourth-order (g_{NL} and \tau_{NL}) amplitudes of the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-27 Joseph Smidt , Alexandre Amblard , Christian T. Byrnes , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens , Dipak Munshi

In a tomographic approach, we measure the cross-correlation between the CMB lensing reconstructed from the Planck satellite and the galaxies of the photometric redshift catalogue based on the combination of the South Galactic Cap u-band Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Gabriela A. Marques , Armando Bernui

We use a temperature map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) obtained using the South Pole Telescope at 150 GHz to construct a map of the gravitational convergence to z ~ 1100, revealing the fluctuations in the projected mass density.…

Detecting and measuring a non-Gaussian signature of primordial origin in the density field is a major science goal of next-generation galaxy surveys. The signal will permit us to determine primordial physics processes and constrain models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Adam Andrews , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Fabian Schmidt

Weak lensing effects are known to introduce non-linear couplings in CMB temperature maps. In inflationary scenario, the primary CMB anisotropies are expected to form a 2D Gaussian map, for which, the probability distribution function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Bernardeau

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements and tomographic galaxy surveys are expected to provide us with high-precision data sets in the coming years, thus paving the way for fruitful cross-correlation analyses. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Priyesh Chakraborty , Shu-Fan Chen , Cora Dvorkin

We explore the possibility of detecting primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type using weak lensing peak counts. We measure the peak abundance in sets of simulated weak lensing maps corresponding to three models f_NL={0, +100, -100}.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-19 Laura Marian , Stefan Hilbert , Robert E. Smith , Peter Schneider , Vincent Desjacques

The non-polarized points (NPP) of the $Q$ and $U$ Stokes parameters of the CMB can be classified according to the geometry of the polarization field. We describe a procedure to identify these points in the pixelized sky and present the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Jaan Kasak , James Creswell , Hao Liu , Pavel Naselsky

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of cosmology. Cosmic shear surveys aimed at measuring the distribution of matter in the universe are currently being carried out (Pan-STARRS) or planned for the coming decade (DES, LSST,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Alberto Vallinotto

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 a CMB large-scale polarization dataset obtained by combining WMAP Ka, Q and V with Planck 70 GHz maps. We employ the legacy frequency maps released by the WMAP and Planck collaborations and perform our own Galactic foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 U. Natale , L. Pagano , M. Lattanzi , M. Migliaccio , L. P. Colombo , A. Gruppuso , P. Natoli , G. Polenta

We present the strongest robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) from currently available galaxy surveys, combining large-scale clustering measurements and their cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Tommaso Giannantonio , Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Robert Crittenden , David Bacher , Martin Kilbinger , Robert Nichol , Jochen Weller

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

The cosmic infrared background (CIB) is gravitationally lensed. A quadratic-estimator technique that is inherited from lensing analyses of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be applied to detect the CIB lensing effects. However, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

The skew-spectrum statistic introduced by Munshi & Heavens (2010) has recently been used in studies of non-Gaussianity from diverse cosmological data sets including the detection of primary and secondary non-Gaussianity of Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Donough Regan , Dipak Munshi