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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

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing is an integrated effect whose kernel is greater than half the peak value in the range $1<z<5$. Measuring this effect offers a powerful tool to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Toshiya Namikawa , Benjamin Bose , François R. Bouchet , Ryuichi Takahashi , Atsushi Taruya

We show that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing trispectrum is sensitive to parity violation in Large-Scale Structure (LSS). We obtain a compact expression for the reduced lensing trispectrum that is general for any input matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Alessandro Greco , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou , Alex Krolewski

Upcoming measurements of the small-scale primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra ($TT$/$TE$/$EE$) are anticipated to yield transformative constraints on new physics, including the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Fiona McCarthy , J. Colin Hill , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

Gravitational lensing information from the two and higher point statistics of the CMB temperature and polarization fields are intrinsically correlated because they are lensed by the same realization of structure between last scattering and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

Compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) are modes in which the baryon and dark matter density fluctuations cancel. They arise in the curvaton scenario as well as some models of baryogenesis. While they leave no observable effects on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Chen He Heinrich , Daniel Grin , Wayne Hu

We use a simple model to investigate the effect of polarized Galactic foreground emission on the ability of planned CMB missions to detect and model CMB polarization. Emission from likely polarized sources (synchrotron and spinning dust)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kogut , G. Hinshaw

Reconstruction of gravitational lensing effects in the CMB from current and upcoming surveys is still dominated by temperature anisotropies. Extragalactic foregrounds in temperature maps can induce significant biases in the lensing power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Frank J. Qu , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin

We investigate early dark energy models in the context of the lensing anomaly by considering two different Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) datasets: a complete Planck, and a second one primarily based on SPTPol and Planck temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Hasti Khoraminezhad , Matteo Viel

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

We discuss the effect of unresolved point source contamination on estimates of the CMB lensing potential, from components such as the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, radio point sources, and the Cosmic Infrared Background. We classify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. J. Osborne , D. Hanson , O. Doré

The lensing convergence measurable with future CMB surveys like CMB-S4 will be highly correlated with the clustering observed by deep photometric large scale structure (LSS) surveys such as the LSST, with cross-correlation coefficient as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Marcel Schmittfull , Uros Seljak

We present a new method for fast computation of the realization-dependent bias, a major computational bottleneck in measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum. The method accelerates the bias calculation by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Blake D. Sherwin

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

Extensions to the $\Lambda\textrm{CDM}$ model prior to recombination can modify the growth of perturbations around radiation-matter equality, leaving a distinct signature in the matter power spectrum. Upcoming large-scale structure surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raphaël Kou , Antony Lewis

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

Gravitational lensing of the microwave background by the intervening dark matter mainly arises from large-angle fluctuations in the projected gravitational potential and hence offers a unique opportunity to study the physics of the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Wayne Hu

In recent years cross correlation of lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with other large scale structure (LSS) tracers has been used as a method to detect CMB lensing. Current experiments are also becoming sensitive enough to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-26 Ruth Pearson , Oliver Zahn

We first compare the CMB lensing model of Seljak (1996) with the empirical model of Lieu & Mittaz (2005) to determine if the latter approach implies a larger effect on the CMB power-spectrum. We find that the empirical model gives…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Shanks

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is expected to be amongst the most powerful cosmological tools for ongoing and upcoming CMB experiments. In this work, we investigate a bias to CMB lensing reconstruction from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-26 Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill