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As Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements are becoming more ambitious, the issue of foreground contamination is becoming more pressing. This is especially true at the level of sensitivity, angular resolution and for the sky coverage…

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In order to better analyse the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is dominated by emission from our Galaxy, we need tools that can detect residual foregrounds in cleaned CMB maps. Galactic foregrounds introduce…

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The Cosmological Microwave Background (CMB) is of premier importance for the cosmologists to study the birth of our universe. Unfortunately, most CMB experiments such as COBE, WMAP or Planck do not provide a direct measure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , S. Basak

The energy injected from dark matter annihilation and decay processes potentially raises the ionisation of the intergalactic medium and leaves visible footprints on the anisotropy maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 Zi-Xuan Zhang , Yi-Ming Wang , Junsong Cang , Zirui Zhang , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , Yu Gao , Hong Li

Measurements of weak gravitational lensing using the cosmic microwave background and the shapes of galaxies have refined our understanding of the late-time history of the Universe. While optical surveys have been the primary source for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Alba Kalaja , Ian Harrison , William R Coulton

Weak gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structure induces a distinct signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that can be used to reconstruct the weak-lensing displacement map. Estimators for individual Fourier modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Kesden , Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Stephen M. Feeney , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde , Josquin Errard

Upcoming observations from the Simons Observatory have been projected to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, at the level of $\sigma(r)=$0.003. Here we describe one of the forecasting algorithms for the Simons Observatory in more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-23 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Josquin Errard , J. Colin Hill , Brian Keating , Grant Teply , Edward J. Wollack

We present the first measurement of the correlation between the map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential derived from the \emph{Planck} nominal mission data and $z\gtrsim 1.5$ galaxies detected by the…

In this paper, we try to probe whether a clean CMB map obtained from the raw satellite data using a cleaning procedure is sufficiently clean. Specifically we study if there are any foreground residuals still present in the cleaned data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 Pavan K. Aluri , Pranati K. Rath

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

The measurement of the large-scale B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a fundamental goal of future CMB experiments. However, because of unprecedented sensitivity, future CMB experiments will be much more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

Cross-correlating the lensing signals of galaxies and comic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations is expected to provide valuable cosmological information. In particular it may help tighten constraints on parameters describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Upcoming ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will provide CMB maps with high sensitivity and resolution that can be used for high fidelity lensing reconstruction. However, the sky coverage will be incomplete and the noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Mark Mirmelstein , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

We reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential on the latest Planck CMB PR4 (NPIPE) maps, which include slightly more data than the 2018 PR3 release, and implement quadratic estimators using more optimal filtering.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Julien Carron , Mark Mirmelstein , Antony Lewis

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will have lower noise and therefore increased sensitivity, enabling improved constraints on fundamental physics parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 João Caldeira , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Brian Nord , Camille Avestruz , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kyle T. Story

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

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr of observations collected through 2024 with a variable-delay…

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

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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