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Extragalactic foregrounds are known to constitute a limiting systematic in temperature-based CMB lensing with AdvACT, SPT-3G, Simons Observatory and CMB S4. Furthermore, since these foregrounds are emitted at cosmological distances, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Nishant Mishra , Emmanuel Schaan

Extragalactic foregrounds are known to generate significant biases in temperature-based CMB lensing reconstruction. Several techniques, which include ``source hardening'' and ``shear-only estimators'' have been proposed to mitigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Sebastian Belkner , Julien Carron , Louis Legrand , Caterina Umiltà , Clem Pryke , Colin Bischoff

Gravitational lensing of the CMB is a valuable cosmological signal that correlates to tracers of large-scale structure and acts as a important source of confusion for primordial $B$-mode polarization. State-of-the-art lensing reconstruction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

One of the major targets for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments is the detection of the primordial B-mode signal. Planning is under way for Stage-IV experiments that are projected to have instrumental noise small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Zhen Pan , Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox

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 Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile at an elevation of 5200 meters, nominally consisting of an array of three 0.42-meter small aperture telescopes…

The characterization and modeling of polarized foregrounds has become a critical issue in the quest for primordial $B$-modes. A typical method to proceed is to factorize and parametrize the spectral properties of foregrounds and their scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 S. Azzoni , M. H. Abitbol , D. Alonso , A. Gough , N. Katayama , T. Matsumura

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

We propose a new probe of inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs): the cross-correlation of the lensing of inflationary $B$-mode polarization with a large-scale structure (LSS) tracer, which can also be a cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Toshiya Namikawa , Blake D. Sherwin

Detecting primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a direct probe of inflationary gravitational waves. However, the signal is extremely faint and contaminated by gravitational lensing, instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Anumanchi Agastya Sai Ram Likhit , Rajib Saha

The existence of a cosmic background of primordial gravitational waves (PGWB) is a robust prediction of inflationary cosmology, but it has so far evaded discovery. The most promising avenue of its detection is via measurements of Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Kai Yi , Yanan Fan , Jan Hamann , Pietro Liò , Yuguang Wang

We investigate how dust foreground complexity can affect measurements of the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, in the context of the Simons Observatory, using a cross-spectrum component separation analysis. Employing a suite of simulations with…

The next generation of ground-based CMB experiments aim to measure temperature and polarization fluctuations up to $\ell_{\rm max} \approx 5000$ over half of the sky. Combined with Planck data on large scales, this will provide improved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 William R. Coulton , P. Daniel Meerburg , David G. Baker , Selim Hotinli , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Alexander van Engelen

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming experiment that will study temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will field both a large aperture telescope (LAT)…

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…

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