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Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure significantly impacts observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB): it smooths the acoustic peaks in temperature and $E$-mode polarization power spectra, correlating previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Daniel Green , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

The B-mode of polarization of the CMB is a uniquely powerful probe of gravitational waves produced in the very early Universe. But searches for primordial B-mode anisotropies must contend with gravitational lensing, which induces late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Shengzhu Wang , Antón Baleato Lizancos , José Luis Bernal

Searches for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation data must account for significant contamination from gravitational lensing. Fortunately, the lensing effects can be partially removed by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron

One of the primary scientific targets of current and future CMB polarization experiments is the search for a stochastic background of gravity waves in the early universe. As instrumental sensitivity improves, the limiting factor will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kendrick M. Smith , Duncan Hanson , Marilena LoVerde , Christopher M. Hirata , Oliver Zahn

A detection of excess cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization on large scales allows the possibility of measuring not only the amplitude of these fluctuations but also their scale dependence, which can be parametrized as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gabrielle Simard , Duncan Hanson , Gil Holder

The detection of primordial B-modes, a key probe of cosmic inflation, is increasingly challenged by contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by large-scale structure (LSS). We present a delensing pipeline designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Yi-Ming Wang , Hong Li

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

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The primordial B-modes component of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a promising experimental dataset to probe the inflationary paradigm. B-modes are indeed a direct consequence of the presence of gravitational waves in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Alessandro Manzotti

We present a new method for delensing $B$ modes of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a lensing potential reconstructed from the same realization of the CMB polarization (CMB internal delensing). The $B$-mode delensing is required…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Toshiya Namikawa

Recognizing the impact of contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by Large Scale Structure, we examine delensing methods to enhance sensitivity to the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ in primordial B-mode detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Siyu Li , Bin Hu , Hong Li

The B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background on large scales has been considered as a probe of gravitational waves from the cosmic inflation. Ongoing and future experiments will, however, suffer from contamination due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Toshiya Namikawa , Ryo Nagata

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the…

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An excellent estimate of the lensing signal is expected from the availability of deep and high-resolution polarization data in the near future. This is most important to allow for efficient delensing, needed to detect the primordial B-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Julien Carron , Enea di Dio , Ruth Durrer

The delensing procedure is an effective tool for removing lensing-induced $B$-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background to allow for deep searches of primordial $B$-modes. However, the delensing algorithm existing in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-01 Wei-Hsiang Teng , Chao-Lin Kuo , Jiun-Huei Proty Wu

We analyze the possibility of delensing CMB polarization maps using foreground weak lensing (WL) information. We build an estimator of the CMB lensing potential out of optimally combined projected potential estimators to different source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Laura Marian , Gary M. Bernstein

As confusion with lensing B-modes begins to limit experiments that search for primordial B-mode polarization, robust methods for delensing the CMB polarization sky are becoming increasingly important. We investigate in detail the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Blake D. Sherwin , Marcel Schmittfull

The effects of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been measured at high significance with existing data and will be measured even more precisely in future surveys. Reversing the effects of lensing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers , Cynthia Trendafilova , Daniel Green , Alexander van Engelen
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