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Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Benjamin Horowitz , Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of cosmology, providing insight into structure formation and the evolution of the universe. Current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yuka Nakato , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira , Yuuki Omori , Abhishek S. Maniyar

We study reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum from CMB temperature data, with an eye to the Planck experiment. We work with the optimal quadratic estimator of Okamoto and Hu, which we characterize thoroughly in application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 Duncan Hanson , Anthony Challinor , George Efstathiou , Pawel Bielewicz

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is an important cosmological tool that allows us to learn about the structure, composition and evolution of the Universe. Upcoming CMB experiments, such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Mark Mirmelstein , Giulio Fabbian , Antony Lewis , Julien Peloton

Noise maps from CMB experiments are generally statistically anisotropic, due to scanning strategies, atmospheric conditions, or instrumental effects. Any mis-modeling of this complex noise can bias the reconstruction of the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Louis Legrand , Blake Sherwin , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron , Gerrit S. Farren

We develop an optimal Bayesian solution for jointly inferring secondary signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) originating from gravitational lensing and from patchy screening during the epoch of reionization. This method is able…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Federico Bianchini , Marius Millea

We present a new method for delensing $B$ modes of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a lensing potential reconstructed from the same realization of the CMB polarization (CMB internal delensing). The $B$-mode delensing is required…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Toshiya Namikawa

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will have lower noise and therefore increased sensitivity, enabling improved constraints on fundamental physics parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 João Caldeira , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Brian Nord , Camille Avestruz , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kyle T. Story

Future experiments will produce high-resolution temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and are expected to reveal the signature of gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structures. We construct all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

CMB and lensing reconstruction power spectra are powerful probes of cosmology. However they are correlated, since the CMB power spectra are lensed and the lensing reconstruction is constructed using CMB multipoles. We perform a full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-20 Julien Peloton , Marcel Schmittfull , Antony Lewis , Julien Carron , Oliver Zahn

The reconstruction of the CMB lensing potential is based on a Taylor expansion of lensing effects which is known to have poor convergence properties. For lensing of temperature fluctuations, an understanding of the higher order terms in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ethan Anderes

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and dark energy equation of state.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan , Toshiya Namikawa , Arthur Kosowsky

The rapidly improving precision of measurements of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) also requires a corresponding increase in the precision of theoretical modeling. A commonly made approximation is to model the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Vanessa Böhm , Marcel Schmittfull , Blake D. Sherwin

The bispectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generated by a correlation between a time-dependent gravitational potential and the weak gravitational lensing effect provides a direct measurement of the influence of dark energy on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Veronika Junk , Eiichiro Komatsu

Un-doing the effect of gravitational lensing on the Cosmic Microwave Background (`de-lensing') is essential in shaping constraints on weak signals limited by lensing effects on the CMB, for example on a background of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

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 intervening large--scale structure distorts cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies via gravitational lensing. The same large--scale structure, traced by dusty star--forming galaxies, also induces anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yong-Seon Song , Asantha Cooray , Lloyd Knox , Matias Zaldarriaga

Extragalactic foregrounds in temperature maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) severely limit the ability of standard estimators to reconstruct the weak lensing potential. These foregrounds are not fully removable by multi-frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Noah Sailer , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

We present the results of a search for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in cross-correlation with the projected density of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The CMB lensing reconstruction is performed using the…