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A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR

We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the POLARBEAR experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode polarization signature carries information about the Universe's entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , A. E. Anthony , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , D. Flanigan , A. Gilbert , W. Grainger , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , J. Howard , P. Hyland , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , N. J. Miller , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , E. Quealy , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , I. Schanning , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , O. Zahn

Reconstruction of lensing from the cosmic microwave background polarization

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization field has been recognized as a potentially valuable probe of the cosmological density field. We apply likelihood-based techniques to the problem of lensing of CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

CMB Polarization Measurements

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation carries essential information on early stages of the Universe such as the cosmic inflation, forming cosmological structures through gravitational lensing, and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 E. Carretti , C. Baccigalupi

SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. II. Cosmological Constraints from the Abundance of Massive Halos

We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 S. Bocquet , S. Grandis , L. E. Bleem , M. Klein , J. J. Mohr , T. Schrabback , T. M. C. Abbott , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , S. W. Allen , O. Alves , A. Amon , A. J. Anderson , J. Annis , B. Ansarinejad , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , D. Bacon , M. Bayliss , J. A. Beall , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bhargava , F. Bianchini , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , L. Bryant , A. Campos , R. E. A. Canning , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. L. Chang , C. Chang , P. Chaubal , R. Chen , H. C. Chiang , A. Choi , T-L. Chou , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , J. Cordero , M. Costanzi , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Desai , T. de Haan , H. T. Diehl , M. A. Dobbs , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , W. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , A. M. Flores , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. M. George , G. Giannini , M. D. Gladders , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , G. Khullar , K. Kim , L. Knox , R. Kraft , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , F. Kéruzoré , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , P. -F. Leget , D. Li , H. Lin , A. Lowitz , N. MacCrann , G. Mahler , A. Mantz , J. L. Marshall , J. McCullough , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , J. Montgomery , J. Myles , T. Natoli , A. Navarro-Alsina , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Pandey , P. Paschos , S. Patil , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , C. Pryke , M. Raveri , C. L. Reichardt , J. Roberson , R. P. Rollins , C. Romero , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , L. Salvati , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , A. Saro , K. K. Schaffer , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , K. Sharon , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , T. Somboonpanyakul , M. Sommer , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , V. Strazzullo , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , C. To , M. A. Troxel , C. Tucker , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , A. von der Linden , G. Wang , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , B. Yanny , V. Yefremenko , B. Yin , M. Young , J. A. Zebrowski , Y. Zhang , H. Zohren , J. Zuntz

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Inflation: CMB and Direct Detection With Space-Based Laser Interferometers

The curl-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization probe horizon-scale primordial gravitational waves related to inflation. A significant source of confusion is expected from a lensing conversion of polarization related to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray

Analyzing weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background using the likelihood function

Future experiments will produce high-resolution temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and are expected to reveal the signature of gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structures. We construct all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

A comparison of CMB lensing efficiency of gravitational waves and large scale structure

We provide a detailed treatment and comparison of the weak lensing effects due to large-scale structure (LSS), or scalar density perturbations and those due to gravitational waves(GW) or tensor perturbations, on the temperature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Aditya Rotti , Tarun Souradeep

Measuring primordial gravitational waves from CMB B-modes in cosmologies with generalized expansion histories

We evaluate our capability to constrain the abundance of primordial tensor perturbations in cosmologies with generalized expansion histories in the epoch of cosmic acceleration. Forthcoming satellite and sub-orbital experiments probing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Claudia Antolini , Matteo Martinelli , Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi

A Polarization Pursuers' Guide

We calculate the detectability of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as a function of the sky coverage, angular resolution, and instrumental sensitivity for a hypothetical experiment. We consider the gradient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew H. Jaffe , Marc Kamionkowski , Limin Wang

Delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization with machine learning

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

Galactic Synchrotron Foreground and the CMB Polarization Measurements

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 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

Minimizing gravitational lensing contributions to the primordial bispectrum covariance

The next generation of ground-based CMB experiments aim to measure temperature and polarization fluctuations up to $\ell_{\rm max} \approx 5000$ over half of the sky. Combined with Planck data on large scales, this will provide improved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 William R. Coulton , P. Daniel Meerburg , David G. Baker , Selim Hotinli , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Alexander van Engelen

Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope

We derive cosmological constraints using a galaxy cluster sample selected from the 2500~deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey. The sample spans the redshift range $0.25< z<1.75$ and contains 343 clusters with SZ detection significance $\xi>5$. The sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 S. Bocquet , J. P. Dietrich , T. Schrabback , L. E. Bleem , M. Klein , S. W. Allen , D. E. Applegate , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , M. Brodwin , E. Bulbul , R. E. A. Canning , R. Capasso , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , I. Chiu , H-M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , G. P. Garmire , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , S. Grandis , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , H. Hoekstra , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , C. Jones , G. Khullar , L. Knox , R. Kraft , A. T. Lee , A. von der Linden , D. Luong-Van , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , R. G. Morris , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , V. Strazzullo , C. W. Stubbs , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , A. Zenteno

Constraints on $S_8$ from a full-scale and full-shape analysis of redshift-space clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing in BOSS

We present a novel simulation-based cosmological analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy redshift-space clustering. Compared to analysis methods based on perturbation theory, our simulation-based approach allows us to probe a much…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Johannes U. Lange , Andrew P. Hearin , Alexie Leauthaud , Frank C. van den Bosch , Enia Xhakaj , Hong Guo , Risa H. Wechsler , Joseph DeRose

Planck 2013 results. XVII. Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure

On the arcminute angular scales probed by Planck, the CMB anisotropies are gently perturbed by gravitational lensing. Here we present a detailed study of this effect, detecting lensing independently in the 100, 143, and 217GHz frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , C. Armitage-Caplan , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , S. Basak , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. Bobin , J. J. Bock , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , M. Bridges , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , L. -Y Chiang , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , S. Church , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , T. Déchelette , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , M. Giard , G. Giardino , Y. Giraud-Héraud , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. Harrison , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , S. Ho , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , T. R. Jaffe , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , L. Knox , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , A. Lavabre , C. R. Lawrence , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , J. León-Tavares , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , S. Osborne , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , T. Poutanen , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , A. R. Pullen , J. P. Rachen , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , M. Rowan-Robinson , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , G. Savini , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , E. P. S. Shellard , L. D. Spencer , J. -L. Starck , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , F. Sureau , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , M. White , S. D. M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

The importance of secondary halos for strong lensing in massive galaxy clusters across redshift

Cosmological cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing probes the mass distribution of the dense cores of massive dark matter halos and the structures along the line of sight from background sources to the observer. It is frequently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Nan Li , Michael D. Gladders , Katrin Heitmann , Esteban M. Rangel , Hillary L. Child , Michael K. Florian , Lindsey E. Bleem , Salman Habib , Hal J. Finkel

An excess of small-scale gravitational lenses observed in galaxy clusters

Cold dark matter (CDM) constitutes most of the matter in the Universe. The interplay between dark and luminous matter in dense cosmic environments like galaxy clusters is studied theoretically using cosmological simulations. Observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Massimo Meneghetti , Guido Davoli , Pietro Bergamini , Piero Rosati , Priyamvada Natarajan , Carlo Giocoli , Gabriel B. Caminha , R. Benton Metcalf , Elena Rasia , Stefano Borgani , Francesco Calura , Claudio Grillo , Amata Mercurio , Eros Vanzella

Impact of Polarized Galactic Foreground Emission on CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Delensing of B-Modes

Next generation CMB experiments such as CMB-S4 aim at measuring the CMB lensing potential at sub-percent precision where most of the constraining power will come from CMB polarization. We investigate the prospects of achieving this goal in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Dominic Beck , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Cosmological constraints from Planck galaxy clusters with CMB lensing mass bias calibration

We present a new cosmological analysis of the galaxy clusters in the Planck MMF3 cosmology sample with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing calibration of the cluster masses. As demonstrated by Planck, galaxy clusters detected via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Íñigo Zubeldia , Anthony Challinor

Microwave polarization in the direction of galaxy clusters induced by the CMB quadrupole anisotropy

Electron scattering induces a polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal measured in the direction of a galaxy cluster due to the presence of a quadrupole component in the CMB temperature distribution. Measuring the…

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