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Following Kamionkowski (2008), a quadratic estimator of the rotation of the plane of polarization of the CMB is constructed. This statistic can estimate a spatially varying rotation angle. We use this estimator to quantify the prospects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Amit P. S. Yadav , Rahul Biswas , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

The B-mode polarisation power spectrum in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is about four orders of magnitude fainter than the CMB temperature power spectrum. Any instrumental imperfections that couple temperature fluctuations to B-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Christopher G. R. Wallis , Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye , Jacques Delabrouille

We analyze the window functions for the spherical harmonic mode estimators of all--sky, volume limited surveys considering evolutionary effects along the past light--cone which include the deviation of the distance scale from a linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew A. de Laix , Glenn D. Starkman

We introduce a novel statistic to probe the statistics of phases of Fourier modes in two-dimensions (2D) for weak lensing convergence field $\kappa$. This statistic contains completely independent information compared to that contained in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 D. Munshi , R. Takahashi , J. D. McEwen , T. D. Kitching , F. R. Bouchet

Most statistical inference from cosmic large-scale structure relies on two-point statistics, i.e.\ on the galaxy-galaxy correlation function (2PCF) or the power spectrum. These statistics capture the full information encoded in the Fourier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kamran Ali , Danail Obreschkow , Cullan Howlett , Camille Bonvin , Claudio Llinares , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Chris Power

We propose an estimator defined in real space for the reconstruction of the weak lensing potential due to the intervening large scale structure from high resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background. This estimator was motivated as an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 C. S. Carvalho , K. Moodley

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of angular power spectra of cosmic shear maps based on data from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3). Our measurements are based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 C. Doux , B. Jain , D. Zeurcher , J. Lee , X. Fang , R. Rosenfeld , A. Amon , H. Camacho , A. Choi , L. F. Secco , J. Blazek , C. Chang , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , N. Jeffrey , M. Raveri , S. Samuroff , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , A. G. Kim , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , K. Reil , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

In this paper we introduce a new observable to measure cosmic shear. We show that if we can measure with good accuracy both, the orientation of a galaxy and the polarisation direction of its radio emission, the angle between them is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Jérémie Francfort , Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer

We present a Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach to infer the cosmic matter density field, and the lensing and the matter power spectra, from cosmic shear data. This method uses a physical model of cosmic structure formation to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Daniel Mortlock , Guilhem Lavaux

Spectroscopic redshift surveys offer great prospects for constraining the dark sector in cosmology. Future surveys will however be both deep and wide and will thus require an analysis in 3-dimensional spherical geometry. We review and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Aseem Paranjape

On-going or soon to come cosmological large-scale structure surveys such as DESI, SPHEREx, Euclid, or the High-Latitude Spectroscopic Survey of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope promise unprecedented measurement of the clustering of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Brandon Khek , Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt , Olivier Doré

Broadband multimode squeezers constitute a powerful quantum resource with promising potential for different applications in quantum information technologies such as information coding in quantum communication networks or quantum simulations…

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

We present an improved analysis of the final dataset from the QUaD experiment. Using an improved technique to remove ground contamination, we double the effective sky area and hence increase the precision of our CMB power spectrum…

In this paper we derive a full expression for the propagation of multiplicative and additive shape measurement biases into the cosmic shear power spectrum. In doing so we identify several new terms that are associated with selection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-16 T. D. Kitching , P. Paykari , H. Hoekstra , M. Cropper

We perform a blinded cosmology analysis with cosmic shear two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) measured from more than 25 million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam three-year shear catalog in four tomographic redshift bins ranging from…

Large galaxy surveys demand fast and scalable estimators for anisotropic clustering statistics beyond the monopole. We present a suite of efficient FFT-based estimators for power-spectrum and bispectrum multipoles, built upon exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yunchen Xie , Ruiyang Zhao , Gan Gu , Xiaoma Wang , Xiaoyong Mu , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Florian Beutler , John A. Peacock

$ $Future surveys could obtain tighter constraints on the cosmological parameters with the galaxy power spectrum than with the Cosmic Microwave Background. However, the inclusion of multiple overlapping tracers, redshift bins, and more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Yan Lai , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis