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The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and imprints a characteristic pattern onto it. The distortions depend on the projected matter density between today and redshift $z \sim 1100$. In this paper…

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

The weak lensing effects are known to change only weakly the shape of the power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations. I show here that they nonetheless induce specific non-Gaussian effects that can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Bernardeau

Weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) changes CMB statistics in a nontrivial way, allowing for reconstruction of the lensing potential and the use of these reconstructed maps in determining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Cynthia Trendafilova

The effect of gravitational lensing on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies is investigated using the power spectrum approach. The lensing effect can be calculated in any cosmological model by specifying the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Uros Seljak

Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced $B$ modes. We introduce a lensing spectrum estimator and its likelihood for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

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

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

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation lensing is a promising tool to study the physics of early universe. In this work we probe the imprints of deviations from isotropy and scale invariance of primordial curvature perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram , Hassan Firouzjahi

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

We develop the first algorithm able to jointly compute the maximum {\it a posteriori} estimate of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields, the gravitational potential by which they are lensed, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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

Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields and encodes valuable information on distances and growth rates at intermediate redshifts into the lensed power spectra. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kendrick M. Smith , Wayne Hu , Manoj Kaplinghat

We show how observations of temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to extract information related to the large scale structure, including dark matter distribution, pressure and halo velocities involving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

Hu [Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 043007] has presented a harmonic-space method for calculating the effects of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the full sky. Computing the lensed power spectra to first order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Challinor , Gayoung Chon

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

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) carries imprints of the physics operating at redshifts much lower than that of recombination and serves as an important probe of cosmological structure formation, dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Victor C. Chan , Renée Hložek , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

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

We propose a new method for extracting the non-Gaussian signatures on the isotemperature statistics in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky, which is induced by the gravitational lensing due to the intervening large-scale structure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masahiro Takada

The large-angle, low multipole cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a unique view of the largest angular scales in the Universe. Study of these scales is hampered by the facts that we have only one Universe to observe, only a few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Craig J. Copi , Dragan Huterer , Dominik J. Schwarz , Glenn D. Starkman