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Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Primordial B-modes are a unique signature of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). However, the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia

The B-mode of polarization of the CMB is a uniquely powerful probe of gravitational waves produced in the very early Universe. But searches for primordial B-mode anisotropies must contend with gravitational lensing, which induces late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Shengzhu Wang , Antón Baleato Lizancos , José Luis Bernal

A detection of excess cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization on large scales allows the possibility of measuring not only the amplitude of these fluctuations but also their scale dependence, which can be parametrized as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gabrielle Simard , Duncan Hanson , Gil Holder

The most promising avenue for detecting primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation is through measurements of degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation. This approach must face the challenge posed by gravitational lensing of the CMB,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin , Toshiya Namikawa

Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure significantly impacts observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB): it smooths the acoustic peaks in temperature and $E$-mode polarization power spectra, correlating previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Daniel Green , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

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

The detection of primordial B-modes, a key probe of cosmic inflation, is increasingly challenged by contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by large-scale structure (LSS). We present a delensing pipeline designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Yi-Ming Wang , Hong Li

As confusion with lensing B-modes begins to limit experiments that search for primordial B-mode polarization, robust methods for delensing the CMB polarization sky are becoming increasingly important. We investigate in detail the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Blake D. Sherwin , Marcel Schmittfull

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by large-scale structure in the late universe is both a source of cosmological information and a potential contaminant of primordial gravity waves. Because lensing imprints growth of…

We explore the potential use of the Radio Continuum (RC) survey conducted by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to remove (delens) the lensing-induced B-mode polarization and thus enhance future cosmic microwave background (CMB) searches for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Toshiya Namikawa , Daisuke Yamauchi , Blake Sherwin , Ryo Nagata

The effects of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been measured at high significance with existing data and will be measured even more precisely in future surveys. Reversing the effects of lensing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers , Cynthia Trendafilova , Daniel Green , Alexander van Engelen

One of the primary scientific targets of current and future CMB polarization experiments is the search for a stochastic background of gravity waves in the early universe. As instrumental sensitivity improves, the limiting factor will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kendrick M. Smith , Duncan Hanson , Marilena LoVerde , Christopher M. Hirata , Oliver Zahn

The search for primordial gravitational waves is a central goal of cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. Isolating the characteristic $B$-mode polarization signal sourced by primordial gravitational waves is challenging for several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

The detection of B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology and physics. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin , Fabian Schmidt

Large-scale $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a prime target for current and future experiments in search of primordial gravitational waves (PGW). With increasingly sensitive instruments being deployed,…

One of the major targets for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments is the detection of the primordial B-mode signal. Planning is under way for Stage-IV experiments that are projected to have instrumental noise small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Zhen Pan , Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox

The delensing of cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps will be increasingly valuable for extracting as much information as possible from future CMB surveys. Delensing provides many general benefits, including sharpening of the acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Cynthia Trendafilova , Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers

Searches for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation data must account for significant contamination from gravitational lensing. Fortunately, the lensing effects can be partially removed by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron

[Abridged] The polarization of the CMB is widely recognized as a potential source of information about primordial gravitational waves. The gravitational wave contribution can be separated from the dominant CMB polarization created by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher M. Hirata , Abraham Loeb , Niayesh Afshordi
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