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The tightest constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ can only be obtained after removing a substantial fraction of the lensing $B$-mode sample variance. The planned CMB-S4 experiment will remove the lensing $B$-mode signal internally…

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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

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

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

Most of the CMB experiments proposed for the next generation aim to detect the Primordial Gravitational Wave Background (PGWB). The fulfillment of this objective depends on our capacity to separate Galactic foreground emissions and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 P. Diego-Palazuelos , P. Vielva , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

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 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

Next generation CMB experiments such as CMB-S4 aim at measuring the CMB lensing potential at sub-percent precision where most of the constraining power will come from CMB polarization. We investigate the prospects of achieving this goal in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Dominic Beck , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

We study the effects of astrophysical foregrounds on the ability of CMB B-mode polarization experiments to constrain the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r. To clean the foreground contributions we use parametric, maximum likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

The Simons Observatory (SO), a next-generation ground-based CMB experiment in its final stages of construction, will target primordial $B$-modes with unprecedented sensitivity to set tight bounds on the amplitude of inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Emilie Hertig , Kevin Wolz , Toshiya Namikawa , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Susanna Azzoni , Anthony Challinor

The search for primordial $B$-mode polarization of the CMB is limited by the sample variance of $B$-modes produced at later times by gravitational lensing. Constraints can be improved by `delensing': using some proxy of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Simone Ferraro

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

Abreg: We investigate the impact of polarized foreground emission on the performances of future CMB experiments in measuring the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. We design a component separation pipeline, based on the Smica method, aimed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marc Betoule , E. Pierpaoli , J. Delabrouille , M. Le Jeune , Jean-François Cardoso

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 most promising avenue for detecting primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation is through measurements of degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation. This approach must face the challenge posed by gravitational lensing of the CMB,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Anthony Challinor , Blake D. Sherwin , Toshiya Namikawa

Large-scale $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a prime target for current and future experiments in search of primordial gravitational waves (PGW). With increasingly sensitive instruments being deployed,…

The primordial CMB $B$-mode search is on the spotlight of the scientific community due to the large amount of cosmological information that is encoded in the primeval signal. However, the detection of this signal is challenging from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 E. de la Hoz , P. Vielva , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martínez-González

The measurement of the large-scale B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a fundamental goal of future CMB experiments. However, because of unprecedented sensitivity, future CMB experiments will be much more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

The delensing of cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps will be increasingly valuable for extracting as much information as possible from future CMB surveys. Delensing provides many general benefits, including sharpening of the acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Cynthia Trendafilova , Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers