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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.…

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Cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons are deflected by large-scale structure through gravitational lensing. This secondary effect introduces higher-order correlations in CMB anisotropies, which are used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 M. Ruiz-Granda , P. Diego-Palazuelos , C. Gimeno-Amo , P. Vielva , A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Lembo , R. Nagata , M. Remazeilles , D. Adak , E. Allys , A. Anand , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , A. Besnard , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , F. Bouchet , T. Brinckmann , F. Cacciotti , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , E. de la Hoz , M. De Lucia , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Ichiki , H. Jiang , B. Jost , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , V. Maranchery , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , M. Najafi , A. Novelli , F. Noviello , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , F. Piacentini , G. Piccirilli , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , Y. Sakurai , J. Sanghavi , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , R. M. Sullivan , Y. Takase , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , Y. Zhou

CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) polarization observations test many aspects of cosmological models. Effective pseudoscalar-photon interaction(s) would induce a rotation of linear polarization of electromagnetic wave propagating with…

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Detecting the imprint of inflationary gravitational waves on the $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is one of the main science cases for current and next-generation CMB experiments. In this work we explore some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley , Sigurd Naess , Ben Thorne

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…

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Inhomogeneous reionization gives rise to angular fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) optical depth tau(n) to the last scattering surface, correlating different spherical harmonic modes and imprinting characteristic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-24 Meng Su , Amit P. S. Yadav , Matthew McQuinn , Jaiyul Yoo , Matias Zaldarriaga

The next generation of instruments designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will provide a historic opportunity to open the gravitational wave window to the primordial Universe. Through high sensitivity…

Cosmological Birefringence (CB), a rotation of the polarization plane of radiation coming to us from distant astrophysical sources, may reveal parity violation in either the electromagnetic or gravitational sectors of the fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Amit P. S. Yadav , Meir Shimon , Brian G. Keating

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of cosmology, providing insight into structure formation and the evolution of the universe. Current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yuka Nakato , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira , Yuuki Omori , Abhishek S. Maniyar

We present a study on using delensing to enhance cosmic birefringence measurements based on full-sky, map-based simulations. In our analysis, we neglect foreground contamination and instrumental systematics to isolate the intrinsic impact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Anto Idicherian Lonappan

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a significant source of knowledge about the origin and evolution of our universe. However, observations of the CMB are contaminated by foreground emissions, obscuring the CMB signal and reducing its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Jadie Adams , Steven Lu , Krzysztof M. Gorski , Graca Rocha , Kiri L. Wagstaff

Extragalactic foregrounds in temperature maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) severely limit the ability of standard estimators to reconstruct the weak lensing potential. These foregrounds are not fully removable by multi-frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Noah Sailer , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

Following Kamionkowski (2008), a quadratic estimator of the rotation of the plane of polarization of the CMB is constructed. This statistic can estimate a spatially varying rotation angle. We use this estimator to quantify the prospects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Amit P. S. Yadav , Rahul Biswas , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

We introduce an exact Bayesian approach to search for non-Gaussianity of local type in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. Using simulated CMB temperature maps, the newly developed technique is compared against the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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 study the effects of gravitational lensing on the estimation of non-Gaussianity from the bispectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. We find that the effect of lensing on the bispectrum may qualitatively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-21 Duncan Hanson , Kendrick M. Smith , Anthony Challinor , Michele Liguori

Next-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on the mechanism by which perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Ballardini , William Luke Matthewson , Roy Maartens

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 present a new, semi-analytic framework for estimating the level of residuals present in CMB maps derived from multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and forecasting their impact on cosmological parameters. The data are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Radek Stompor , Josquin Errard , Davide Poletti

We reconsider the pixel-based, "template" polarized foreground removal method within the context of a next-generation, low-noise, low-resolution (0.5 degree FWHM) space-borne experiment measuring the cosmological B-mode polarization signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nobuhiko Katayama , Eiichiro Komatsu