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We present a method to delens the acoustic peaks of the CMB temperature and polarization power spectra internally, using lensing maps reconstructed from the CMB itself. We find that when delensing CMB acoustic peaks with a lensing potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Neelima Sehgal , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Blake Sherwin , Alexander van Engelen

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

We estimate the efficiency of mitigating the lensing $B$-mode polarization, the so-called delensing, for the $LiteBIRD$ experiment with multiple external data sets of lensing-mass tracers. The current best bound on the tensor-to-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 T. Namikawa , A. I. Lonappan , C. Baccigalupi , N. Bartolo , D. Beck , K. Benabed , A. Challinor , P. Diego-Palazuelos , J. Errard , S. Farrens , A. Gruppuso , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Migliaccio , E. Martínez-González , V. Pettorino , G. Piccirilli , M. Ruiz-Granda , 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 , T. de Haan , 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 , 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 , 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 , J. Rubino-Martin , 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 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

The lensing signals involved in CMB polarization maps have already been measured with ground-based experiments such as SPTpol and POLARBEAR, and would become important as a probe of cosmological and astrophysical issues in the near future.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Ryo Nagata

Noise maps from CMB experiments are generally statistically anisotropic, due to scanning strategies, atmospheric conditions, or instrumental effects. Any mis-modeling of this complex noise can bias the reconstruction of the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Louis Legrand , Blake Sherwin , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron , Gerrit S. Farren

We investigate the performance of a simple Bayesian fitting approach to correct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization for gravitational lensing effects in the recovered probability distribution of the tensor-to-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

Based on realistic simulations, we propose an hybrid method to reconstruct the lensing potential power spectrum, directly on PLANCK-like CMB frequency maps. It implies using a large galactic mask and dealing with a strong inhomogeneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 S. Plaszczynski , A. Lavabre , L. Perotto , J. -L. Starck

Delensing, the removal of the limiting lensing B-mode background, is crucial for the success of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys in constraining inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs). In recent work, delensing with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Byeonghee Yu , J. Colin Hill , Blake D. Sherwin

Efforts to detect a primordial $B$-mode of CMB polarization generated by inflationary gravitational waves ought to mitigate the large variance associated with the $B$-modes produced by gravitational lensing, a process known as delensing. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Julien Carron

Line-of-sight distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), including gravitational lensing, cosmic birefringence, and patchy screening, encode crucial cosmological information. While quadratic estimators (QE) have been excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Omar Darwish

Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by weak gravitational lensing. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Thomas Flöss , William R. Coulton , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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

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

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

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

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

Over the past decade, the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard technique used to reconstruct the CMB lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro

We explore the potential use of the Radio Continuum (RC) survey conducted by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to remove (delens) the lensing-induced B-mode polarization and thus enhance future cosmic microwave background (CMB) searches for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Toshiya Namikawa , Daisuke Yamauchi , Blake Sherwin , Ryo Nagata