Related papers: Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing

Gravitational Lensing Effect on Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

We investigate the effect of gravitational lensing by matter distribution in the universe on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization power spectra and temperature-polarization cross-correlation spectrum. As in the case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Matias Zaldarriaga , Uros Seljak

LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: improved full-sky reconstruction of the gravitational lensing potential through the combination of Planck and LiteBIRD data

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons are deflected by large-scale structure through gravitational lensing. This secondary effect introduces higher-order correlations in CMB anisotropies, which are used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 M. Ruiz-Granda , P. Diego-Palazuelos , C. Gimeno-Amo , P. Vielva , A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Lembo , R. Nagata , M. Remazeilles , D. Adak , E. Allys , A. Anand , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , A. Besnard , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , F. Bouchet , T. Brinckmann , F. Cacciotti , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , E. de la Hoz , M. De Lucia , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Ichiki , H. Jiang , B. Jost , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , V. Maranchery , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , M. Najafi , A. Novelli , F. Noviello , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , F. Piacentini , G. Piccirilli , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , Y. Sakurai , J. Sanghavi , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , R. M. Sullivan , Y. Takase , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , Y. Zhou

First Measurement of the Cross-Correlation of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Lensing

We measure the cross-correlation of cosmic microwave background lensing convergence maps derived from Atacama Cosmology Telescope data with galaxy lensing convergence maps as measured by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Nick Hand , Alexie Leauthaud , Sudeep Das , Blake D. Sherwin , Graeme E. Addison , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Aldée Charbonnier , Mark J. Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Thomas Erben , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Adam D. Hincks , Jean-Paul Kneib , Arthur Kosowsky , Martin Makler , Lance Miller , Kavilan Moodley , Bruno Moraes , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Neelima Sehgal , Huanyuan Shan , Jonathan L. Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , James E. Taylor , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Charlotte Welker , Edward J. Wollack

CMB Lensing Beyond the Power Spectrum: Cosmological Constraints from the One-Point PDF and Peak Counts

Unprecedentedly precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) data are expected from ongoing and near-future CMB Stage-III and IV surveys, which will yield reconstructed CMB lensing maps with effective resolution approaching several arcminutes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Jia Liu , J. Colin Hill , Blake D. Sherwin , Andrea Petri , Vanessa Böhm , Zoltán Haiman

CMB-lensing beyond the Born approximation

We investigate the weak lensing corrections to the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies considering effects beyond the Born approximation. To this aim, we use the small deflection angle approximation, to connect the lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-20 Giovanni Marozzi , Giuseppe Fanizza , Enea Di Dio , Ruth Durrer

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 100GHz. We exploit the Planck HFI polarization data from 100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Planck Collaboration , R. Adam , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , K. Dolag , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , V. Guillet , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , J. Jewell , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , S. Ricciardi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. D. Soler , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , R. Watson , I. K. Wehus , M. White , S. D. M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

We measure the cross-correlation between the galaxy density in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data and the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as reconstructed with the Planck satellite and the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 T. Giannantonio , P. Fosalba , R. Cawthon , Y. Omori , M. Crocce , F. Elsner , B. Leistedt , S. Dodelson , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Gaztanaga , G. Holder , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Kirk , A. H. Bauer , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , J. Carretero , T. M. Crawford , R. Crittenden , D. Huterer , B. Jain , E. Krause , C. L. Reichardt , A. J. Ross , G. Simard , B. Soergel , A. Stark , K. T. Story , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz

CMB lensing reconstruction in the presence of diffuse polarized foregrounds

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi , Samuel Leach , Amit P. S. Yadav

Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT and Planck lensing

We measure the cross-correlation between weak lensing of galaxy images and of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of gravitational lensing on different sources will be correlated if the lensing is caused by the same mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 D. Kirk , Y. Omori , A. Benoit-Lévy , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , P. Larsen , A. Amara , D. Bacon , T. M. Crawford , S. Dodelson , P. Fosalba , T. Giannantonio , G. Holder , B. Jain , T. Kacprzak , O. Lahav , N. MacCrann , A. Nicola , A. Refregier , E. Sheldon , K. T. Story , M. A. Troxel , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , M. R. Becker , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , L. E. Bleem , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. March , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. C. Nichol , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , C. L. Reichardt , A. Roodman , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , G. Simard , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller

Power spectrum of the polarized diffuse Galactic radio emission

We have analyzed the available polarization surveys of the Galactic emission to estimate to what extent it may be a serious hindrance to forthcoming experiments aimed at detecting the polarized component of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Baccigalupi , C. Burigana , F. Perrotta , G. De Zotti , L. La Porta , D. Maino , M. Maris , R. Paladini

By Dawn's Early Light: CMB Polarization Impact on Cosmological Constraints

Cosmic microwave background polarization encodes information not only on the early universe but also dark energy, neutrino mass, and gravity in the late universe through CMB lensing. Ground based surveys such as ACTpol, PolarBear, SPTpol…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-02 Sudeep Das , Eric V. Linder

Likelihood Analysis of CMB Temperature and Polarization Power Spectra

Microwave background temperature and polarization observations are a powerful way to constrain cosmological parameters if the likelihood function can be calculated accurately. The temperature and polarization fields are correlated, partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-25 Samira Hamimeche , Antony Lewis

Cosmology from Planck

I briefly review some of the main scientific outputs expected from the upcoming Planck mission. Planck will map the CMB sky with 5' resolution and $\mu$K sensitivity, with minimal foreground contribution and superb control on systematics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amedeo Balbi

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Delensed Power Spectra and Parameters

We present LCDM cosmological parameter constraints obtained from delensed microwave background power spectra. Lensing maps from a subset of DR4 data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are used to undo the lensing effect in ACT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 Dongwon Han , Neelima Sehgal , Amanda MacInnis , Alexander van Engelen , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Simone Aiola , Nicholas Battaglia , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Omar Darwish , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Simone Ferraro , Anna E. Fox , Matthew Hasselfield , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Renée Hložek , Johannes Hubmayr , John P. Hughes , Arthur Kosowsky , Jeff Van Lanen , Thibaut Louis , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , John P. Nibarger , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Frank J. Qu , Alessandro Schillaci , David N. Spergel , Suzanne Staggs , Emilie Storer , Edward J. Wollack

The CIB-lensing bispectrum: impact on primordial non-Gaussianity and detectability for the Planck mission

We characterize the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB)-lensing bispectrum which is one of the contributions to the three-point functions of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps in harmonic space. We show that the CIB-lensing bispectrum has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Curto , M. Tucci , M. Kunz , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

A New Upper Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) is an invaluable probe of the conditions of the early universe. Recent measurements of its spatial anisotropy have allowed accurate determinations of several fundamental cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christopher O'Dell

Testing for directionality in the Planck polarization and lensing data

In order to better analyse the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is dominated by emission from our Galaxy, we need tools that can detect residual foregrounds in cleaned CMB maps. Galactic foregrounds introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Majd Ghrear , Emory F. Bunn , Dagoberto Contreras , Douglas Scott

BICEP2 / Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Dataset

Precision measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require extreme control of instrumental systematics. In a companion paper we have presented cosmological constraints from observations with the BICEP2 and Keck Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-07 Keck Array , BICEP2 Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , B. P. Crill , M. Crumrine , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , N. A. Larsen , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , C. Zhang

Detecting the B-mode Polarisation of the CMB with Clover

We describe the objectives, design and predicted performance of Clover, which is a ground-based experiment to measure the faint ``B-mode'' polarisation pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve this goal, clover will make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-03 C. E. North , B. R. Johnson , P. A. R. Ade , M. D. Audley , C. Baines , R. A. Battye , M. L. Brown , P. Cabella , P. G. Calisse , A. D. Challinor , W. D. Duncan , P. G. Ferreira , W. K. Gear , D. Glowacka , D. J. Goldie , P. K. Grimes , M. Halpern , V. Haynes , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , M. E. Jones , A. N. Lasenby , P. J. Leahy , J. Leech , B. Maffei , P. Mauskopf , S. J. Melhuish , D. O'Dea , S. M. Parsley , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , C. D. Reintsema , G. Savini , R. Sudiwala , D. Sutton , A. C. Taylor , G. Teleberg , D. Titterington , V. Tsaneva , C. Tucker , R. Watson , S. Withington , G. Yassin , J. Zhang

Scrutinizing Early Dark Energy models through CMB lensing

We investigate early dark energy models in the context of the lensing anomaly by considering two different Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) datasets: a complete Planck, and a second one primarily based on SPTPol and Planck temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Hasti Khoraminezhad , Matteo Viel