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We develop an optimal Bayesian solution for jointly inferring secondary signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) originating from gravitational lensing and from patchy screening during the epoch of reionization. This method is able…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Federico Bianchini , Marius Millea

The temperature fluctuations and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are now a well-known probe of the Universe at an infant age of 400,000 years. During the transit to us from the surface of last scattering, the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-19 Joseph Smidt , Asantha Cooray , Alexandre Amblard , Shahab Joudaki , Dipak Munshi , Mario G. Santos , Paolo Serra

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is a well-known probe of the non-Gaussianity of primordial perturbations. Just as the intervening large-scale structure modifies the CMB angular power spectrum through weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray , Devdeep Sarkar , Paolo Serra

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

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure of the Universe induces high-order correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We construct minimum variance estimators of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Takemi Okamoto

The measurement and characterization of the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is key goal of the current and next generation of CMB experiments. We perform a case study of a three-channel balloon-borne CMB experiment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi , Samuel Leach , Amit P. S. Yadav

We present new methods for lensing reconstruction from CMB temperature fluctuations which have smaller mean-field and reconstruction noise bias corrections than current lensing estimators, with minimal loss of signal-to-noise. These biases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-08 Toshiya Namikawa , Duncan Hanson , Ryuichi Takahashi

Detailed measurements of the CMB lensing signal are an important scientific goal of ongoing ground-based CMB polarization experiments, which are mapping the CMB at high resolution over small patches of the sky. In this work we simulate CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Ruth Pearson , Blake Sherwin , Antony Lewis

Several recent papers have studied lensing of the CMB by large-scale structures, which probes the projected matter distribution from $z=10^3$ to $z\simeq 0$. This interest is motivated in part by upcoming high resolution, high sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Alexandre Amblard , Chris Vale , Martin White

We introduce a new estimator of the CMB lensing power spectrum, together with its likelihood, based on iterative lensing reconstruction. Despite the increased complexity of the lensing maps, this estimator shares similarities with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a long-standing prediction of the standard cosmolgical model, is ultimately expected to be an important source of cosmological information, but first detection has not been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kendrick M. Smith , Oliver Zahn , Olivier Dore

Noise maps from CMB experiments are generally statistically anisotropic, due to scanning strategies, atmospheric conditions, or instrumental effects. Any mis-modeling of this complex noise can bias the reconstruction of the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Louis Legrand , Blake Sherwin , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron , Gerrit S. Farren

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 cosmic microwave background (CMB) is gravitationally lensed by large-scale structure, which distorts observations of the primordial anisotropies in any given direction. Averaged over the sky, this important effect is routinely modelled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 G. Fabbian , J. Carron , A. Lewis , M. Lembo

We use statistical inference theory to explore the constraints from future galaxy weak lensing (cosmic shear) surveys combined with the current CMB constraints on cosmological parameters, focusing particularly on the running of the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata , Patrick McDonald , Uros Seljak

In recent years, weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has emerged as a powerful tool to probe fundamental physics, such as neutrino masses, primordial non-Gaussianity, dark energy, and modified gravity. The prime target of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Abhishek S. Maniyar , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

Weak lensing of galaxies by large scale structure can potentially measure cosmological quantities as accurately as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the relation between observables and fundamental parameters is more complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonas Frugte , P. Daniel Meerburg

The smaller the angular scales on which the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are probed the more important their distortion due to gravitational lensing becomes. Here we investigate the maxima and minima of the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Extragalactic foregrounds are known to generate significant biases in temperature-based CMB lensing reconstruction. Several techniques, which include ``source hardening'' and ``shear-only estimators'' have been proposed to mitigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan