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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…

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We update the search for features, due to transient reductions in inflaton's speed of sound, in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular power spectrum using Planck 2018 temperature, polarization and lensing data. We develop a new…

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We explore a novel analysis framework for parameter inference with large-scale CMB polarization data. Our method uses simulation-based inference combined with the needlet internal linear combination (NILC) algorithm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Kristen Surrao , Adrian E. Bayer , Alexandre E. Adler , Nadia Dachlythra , Susanna Azzoni , J. Colin Hill

Extragalactic foregrounds in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature maps lead to significant biases in CMB lensing reconstruction if not properly accounted for. Combinations of multi-frequency data have been used to minimize the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Noah Sailer , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro , Omar Darwish , Blake Sherwin

The detection of the primordial $B$-mode spectrum of the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal may provide a probe of inflation. However, observation of such a faint signal requires excellent control of systematic errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ata Karakci , Le Zhang , P. M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present the optimal convergence and shear estimators for lensing reconstruction from the cosmic microwave background temperature field. This generalizes the deflection estimator, is sensitive to non-lensing modes, provides internal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

Gravitational waves (GWs) passing through the Earth cause a correlated pattern of time-dependent deflections of the apparent position of astronomical sources. We build upon standard lensing reconstruction techniques to develop a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Alvin Leluc , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a fundamental observational tool in modern cosmology. The linear polarization of the CMB provides a crucial observational tool for exploring new physics, including the inflationary paradigm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Vyoma Muralidhara

Observations of the polarization of the cosmic microwave backround (CMB) have the potential to place much tighter constraints on cosmological parameters than observations of the fluctuations in temperature alone. We discuss using CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William H. Kinney

We consider a novel contribution to the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background induced by vector and tensor modes generated by the non-linear evolution of primordial scalar perturbations. Our calculation is based on relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Silvia Mollerach , Diego Harari , Sabino Matarrese

Measuring the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation field is one of the main goals in modern cosmology. However, the so called $B$-mode polarisation can be generated by different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao

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

If the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is rotated in a frequency-independent manner as it propagates from the surface of last scatter, it may introduce a B-mode polarization. Here I show that measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-08 Marc Kamionkowski

Detection of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is one of the frontiers of observational cosmology. Because they are an order of magnitude fainter than E-modes, it is quite a challenge to detect B-modes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-23 Ata Karakci , P. M. Sutter , Le Zhang , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

In a recently proposed approach to testing models of inflation by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation the reheating temperature is directly expressed in terms of the CMB observables. Its model independent bounds translate in a given…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Michał Marciniak , Marek Olechowski , Stefan Pokorski

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is encoded with exactly the same cosmic information as the CMB's temperature anistropy. However, polarization has the additional promise of accurately probing the reionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian Keating , Nathan Miller

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

In the current era of high-precision CMB experiments, the imprint of gravitational lensing on the CMB temperature is exploited as a source of valuable information. Especially the reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

When a cosmic microwave background (CMB) photon travels from the surface of last scatter through spacetime metric perturbations, the polarization vector may rotate about its direction of propagation. This gravitational rotation is distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-31 Liang Dai