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We present a methodology to recover cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization in which the quantity $P = Q+ iU$ is linearly combined at different frequencies using complex coefficients. This is the most general linear combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 R. Fernández-Cobos , A. Marcos-Caballero , P. Vielva , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

We reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential on the latest Planck CMB PR4 (NPIPE) maps, which include slightly more data than the 2018 PR3 release, and implement quadratic estimators using more optimal filtering.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Julien Carron , Mark Mirmelstein , Antony Lewis

The lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful tool for our study of the distribution of matter in the universe. Currently, the quadratic estimator (EQ) method, which is widely used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Yang-Jie Yan , Jun-Qing Xia

We propose a new internal linear combination (ILC) method in the pixel space, applicable on large angular scales of the sky, to estimate a foreground minimized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy map by incorporating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

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

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

AIMS: The separation of foreground contamination from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations is one of the most challenging and important problem of digital signal processing in Cosmology. In literature, various techniques have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Vio , P. Andreani

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing map produced from a linear combination of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and \emph{Planck} temperature data. The 150 GHz temperature data from the $2500\ {\rm deg}^{2}$ SPT-SZ survey is…

Weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) changes CMB statistics in a nontrivial way, allowing for reconstruction of the lensing potential and the use of these reconstructed maps in determining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Cynthia Trendafilova

The Internal Linear Combination (ILC) is widely used to extract the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from multi-frequency observation maps, especially for Satellite experiments with quasi-full sky coverage. We extend ILC method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Zirui Zhang , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , De-Liang Wu , Haifeng Li , Hong Li

We explore the capability of measuring lensing signals in $LiteBIRD$ full-sky polarization maps. With a $30$ arcmin beam width and an impressively low polarization noise of $2.16\,\mu$K-arcmin, $LiteBIRD$ will be able to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , G. Piccirilli , P. Diego-Palazuelos , M. Ruiz-Granda , M. Migliaccio , C. Baccigalupi , N. Bartolo , D. Beck , K. Benabed , A. Challinor , J. Errard , S. Farrens , A. Gruppuso , N. Krachmalnicoff , E. Martínez-González , V. Pettorino , B. Sherwin , J. Starck , P. Vielva , R. Akizawa , A. Anand , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , S. Azzoni , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , M. Bersanelli , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Conenna , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Georges , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Masi , M. Massa , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , A. Moggi , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , P. Natoli , A. Novelli , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , V. Pavlidou , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , G. Puglisi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , H. Tanimura , A. Tartari , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

We present the optimal convergence and shear estimators for lensing reconstruction from the cosmic microwave background temperature field. This generalizes the deflection estimator, is sensitive to non-lensing modes, provides internal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential has established itself by now as a robust way of probing the physics of large-scale structure growth. The most common estimators of the lensing potential are derived under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Dominic Beck , Giulio Fabbian , Josquin Errard

We forecast how current ({\planck}) and future ({\prism}) cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments constrain the adiabatic mode and its admixtures with primordial isocurvature modes, using measurements of the reconstructed CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Simon Muya Kasanda , Kavilan Moodley

Delensing is an increasingly important technique to reverse the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thus reveal primordial signals the lensing may obscure. We present a first demonstration of delensing on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Patricia Larsen , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin , Daisy Mak

Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced $B$ modes. We introduce a lensing spectrum estimator and its likelihood for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

In this work, we formalize a new technique to investigate joint posterior density of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and its theoretical angular power spectrum given the observed data, using the global internal-linear-combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

Cross-correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and galaxy clustering has been shown to greatly improve the constraints on the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ by reducing sample variance and also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 Yucheng Zhang , Anthony R. Pullen , Abhishek S. Maniyar