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Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on the large-scale structure of the Universe. In a forthcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Y. Omori , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , O. Friedrich , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , L. E. Bleem , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , T. M. Crawford , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , W. L. K. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , R. Chown , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , A. T. Crites , M. E. S. Pereira , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , N. W. Halverson , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , L. Knox , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , M. March , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , T. Natoli , S. Padin , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , J. E. Ruhl , E. Sanchez , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , R. Williamson

Estimating the cosmological microwave background is of utmost importance for cosmology. However, its estimation from full-sky surveys such as WMAP or more recently Planck is challenging: CMB maps are generally estimated via the application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , J. Fadili

Diffuse contamination from Galactic foreground emission is one of the main concerns for reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential for next-generation CMB polarisation experiments. Using realistic simulations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Kishan Deka , Pawel Bielewicz

The power spectrum of reconstructed cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps is a powerful tool for constraints on cosmological parameters like the sum of the neutrino masses and the dark energy equation of state. One possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Hongbo Cai , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill , Arthur Kosowsky

Over the past decade, the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard technique used to reconstruct the CMB lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro

We apply a new method to measure primordial non-Gaussianity, using the cross-correlation between galaxy surveys and the CMB lensing signal to measure galaxy bias on very large scales, where local-type primordial non-Gaussianity predicts a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Tommaso Giannantonio , Will J. Percival

We prepare real-life Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing extraction with the forthcoming Planck satellite data, by studying two systematic effects related to the foregrounds contamination: the impact of foreground residuals after a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-12 L. Perotto , J. Bobin , S. Plaszczynski , J. -L. Starck , A. Lavabre

Our view of the last-scattering surface in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is obscured by secondary anisotropies, sourced by scattering, extragalactic emission and gravitational processes between recombination and observation. Whilst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 William Coulton , Alexander Miranthis , Anthony Challinor

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

Power spectra and cross-correlation measurements from the weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the cosmic shearing of faint galaxies images will help shed light on quantities hidden from the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Wayne Hu

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

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

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature bispectrum is currently the most precise tool for constraining primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). The Planck temperature data tightly constrain the amplitude of local-type NG: $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 J. Colin Hill

Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) observations are unavoidably contaminated by emission from various extra-galactic foregrounds, which must be removed to obtain reliable measurements of the cosmological signal. In this paper, we…

In our previous study, we introduced a machine-learning technique, namely CMBFSCNN, for the removal of foreground contamination in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data. This method was successfully employed on actual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Guo-Jian Wang , Zirui Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

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

We present the results of a search for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in cross-correlation with the projected density of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The CMB lensing reconstruction is performed using the…

The kSZ effect has recently emerged as a powerful probe for precision cosmology through its ability to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field. In particular, the kSZ-reconstructed velocity-galaxy cross-correlation is sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Carmen Embil Villagra , Fiona McCarthy , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Blake D. Sherwin , Anthony Challinor

We present a novel method for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground removal based on deep learning techniques. This method employs a Transformer model, referred to as \texttt{TCMB}, which is specifically designed to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li