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Much recent work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has focussed on the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies and particularly on the recovery of cosmological parameters from acoustic peaks in the power spectrum. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski

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

Weak-lensing distortions of the cosmic-microwave-background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns can reveal important clues to the intervening large-scale structure. The effect of lensing is to deflect the primary temperature and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski , Robert R. Caldwell

We present a method for measuring CMB polarization power spectra given incomplete sky coverage and test it with simulated examples such as Boomerang 2001 and MAP. By augmenting the quadratic estimator method with an additional step, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

We study the gravitational lensing effect on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies performing a ray-tracing of the primordial CMB photons through intervening large-scale structures (LSS) distribution predicted by N-Body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-09 Matteo Calabrese , Carmelita Carbone , Giulio Fabbian , Marco Baldi , Carlo Baccigalupi

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The motion of the solar system barycenter with respect to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) induces a very large apparent dipole component into the CMB brightness map at the 3 mK level. In this Letter we discuss another kinematic effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott Burles , Saul Rappaport

Cosmic microwave background lensing has become a new cosmological probe, carrying rich information on the matter power spectrum and distances over the redshift range $z\approx1$-4. We investigate the role of scale dependent new physics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alireza Hojjati , Eric V. Linder

We explore the capability of measuring lensing signals in $LiteBIRD$ full-sky polarization maps. With a $30$ arcmin beam width and an impressively low polarization noise of $2.16\,\mu$K-arcmin, $LiteBIRD$ will be able to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , G. Piccirilli , P. Diego-Palazuelos , M. Ruiz-Granda , M. Migliaccio , C. Baccigalupi , N. Bartolo , D. Beck , K. Benabed , A. Challinor , J. Errard , S. Farrens , A. Gruppuso , N. Krachmalnicoff , E. Martínez-González , V. Pettorino , B. Sherwin , J. Starck , P. Vielva , R. Akizawa , A. Anand , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , S. Azzoni , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , M. Bersanelli , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Conenna , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Georges , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Masi , M. Massa , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , A. Moggi , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , P. Natoli , A. Novelli , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , V. Pavlidou , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , G. Puglisi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , H. Tanimura , A. Tartari , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

Observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) together with weak lensing measurements of the clustering of large scale cosmological structures and local measurements of the Hubble constant pose a challenge to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu , Timothy Hoffman , Lian-Tao Wang

In addition to its spectrum and temperature anisotropy, the 2.7K Cosmic Microwave Background is also expected to exhibit a low level of polarization. The spatial power spectrum of the polarization can provide details about the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brian Keating , Peter Timbie , Alexander Polnarev , Julia Steinberger

The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide our best laboratory for testing models of the formation and evolution of large-scale structure. The rich features in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectrum, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) changes the morphology of pattern of temperature fluctuations, so topological descriptors such as Minkowski Functionals can probe the gravity model responsible for the lensing. We show how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Munshi , B. Hu , T. Matsubara , P. Coles , A. Heavens

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

A new method for estimating the angular power spectrum C_l from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps is presented, which has the following desirable properties: (1) It is unbeatable in the sense that no other method can measure C_l with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

The delensing of cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps will be increasingly valuable for extracting as much information as possible from future CMB surveys. Delensing provides many general benefits, including sharpening of the acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Cynthia Trendafilova , Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers

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

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 lensing convergence field describing the weak lensing effect of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is expected to be subject to mild deviations from Gaussianity. We perform a suite of full-sky lensing simulations using ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jan Hamann , Yuqi Kang