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We investigate the weak lensing corrections to the CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies. We consider all the effects beyond the leading order: post-Born corrections, LSS corrections and, for the polarization anisotropies, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Giovanni Marozzi , Giuseppe Fanizza , Enea Di Dio , Ruth Durrer

We discuss the future detectability of gravitational-wave induced lensing from high-sensitivity cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Gravitational waves can induce a rotational component of the weak-lensing deflection angle,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 Toshiya Namikawa , Daisuke Yamauchi , Atsushi Taruya

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

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) derive from the superposition of numerous individually unresolved gravitational-wave (GW) signals. Detecting SGWBs provides us with invaluable information about astrophysics, cosmology, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Bei Zhou , Luca Reali , Emanuele Berti , Mesut Çalışkan , Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Many recent works have shown that the angular resolution of ground-based detectors is too poor to characterize the anisotropies of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). For this reason, we asked ourselves if a constellation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Giulia Capurri , Andrea Lapi , Lumen Boco , Carlo Baccigalupi

Weak gravitational lensing leaves a characteristic imprint on the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization angular power spectra. Here we investigate the possible constraints on the integrated lensing potential from future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Erminia Calabrese , Asantha Cooray , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano , Anze Slosar , George F. Smoot

Cosmological inhomogeneities gravitationally deflect radiation propagating from distant sources, transforming the spatial and angular correlation functions of intrinsic source properties. For a gaussian distribution of deflections (e.g.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric V. Linder

We constrain the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observations. SGWB provides the latest way to explore the early universe and the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

We investigate the effect of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by kinks on infinite cosmic strings, whose spectrum was derived in our previous work, on the B-mode power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Masahiro Kawasaki , Koichi Miyamoto , Kazunori Nakayama

Gravity waves (GW) in the early universe generate B-type polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which can be used as a direct way to measure the energy scale of inflation. Gravitational lensing contaminates the GW signal by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Uros Seljak , Christopher M. Hirata

We present robust constraints on the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) at Mpc scales from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. CMB constraints on GWs are usually characterized as the tensor-to-scalar ratio, assuming specifically a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Toshiya Namikawa , Shohei Saga , Daisuke Yamauchi , Atsushi Taruya

The Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background (CGWB) is an irreducible background of gravitational waves generated by particle exchange in the early Universe plasma. Standard Model particles contribute to such a stochastic background with a peak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Francesco Muia , Fernando Quevedo , Andreas Schachner , Gonzalo Villa

In this paper, we revisit the weak gravitational lensing of CMB. The key point is that the deflection angle of CMB photon varies with the redshift. From this we obtain a set of modified power spectra. Compared with the ones calculated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 B. Yu , T. Lu

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from cosmic domain walls (DWs) caused by quantum fluctuations of a light scalar field $\phi$ during inflation. Perturbations of $\phi$ remain almost constant after leaving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo

We discuss the manner in which the primordial magnetic field (PMF) suppresses the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$ mode due to the weak-lensing (WL) effect. The WL effect depends on the lensing potential (LP) caused by matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Dai G. Yamazaki

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

Anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) serves as a potential probe of the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe. In this work, we explore the anisotropic SGWB from local ($z < \sim 0.085$) merging stellar mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Zhencheng Li , Zhen Jiang , Yun Liu , Xi-Long Fan , Liang Gao , Yun Chen , Tengpeng Xu

Significant evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave background has recently been reported by several Pulsar Timing Array observations. These studies have shown that, in addition to astrophysical explanations based on supermassive black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Ran Ding , Chi Tian

The cosmological birefringence caused by the coupling between the cosmic scalar field and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons through the Chern-Simons term can rotate the polarization planes of the photons, and mix the CMB E-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Wen Zhao , Mingzhe Li

Recent reports of stochastic gravitational wave background from four independent pulsar-timing-array collaborations have renewed the interest in the cosmological gravitational wave background (CGWB), which is expected to open a new window…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Xiang-Xi Zeng