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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 the results of a search for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in cross-correlation with the projected density of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The CMB lensing reconstruction is performed using the…

In this note, we study cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity in DBI galileon models in which an induced gravity term is added to the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action. In this model, the non-Gaussianity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Kazuya Koyama , Guido Walter Pettinari , Shuntaro Mizuno , Christian Fidler

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

A description of CMB temperature fluctuations beyond the power spectrum is important for verifying models of structure formation, especially in view of forthcoming high-resolution observations. We argue that higher-order statistics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Winitzki , J. H. P. Wu

We propose to constrain the primordial (local-type) non-Gaussianity signal by first reconstructing the initial density field to remove the late time non-Gaussianities introduced by gravitational evolution. Our reconstruction algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Xinyi Chen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Galaxy bispectrum is a promising probe of inflationary physics in the early universe as a measure of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), whereas its signal-to-noise ratio is significantly affected by the mode coupling due to non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Masato Shirasaki , Naonori S. Sugiyama , Ryuichi Takahashi , Francisco-Shu Kitaura

Detecting anisotropic screening of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) holds the promise of revealing the distribution of gas in the Universe, characterizing the complex processes of galaxy formation and feedback, and studying the epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Noah Sailer , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro

Gravitational lensing provides a significant source of cosmological information in modern CMB parameter analyses. It is measured in both the power spectrum and trispectrum of the temperature fluctuations. These observables are often treated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Marcel M. Schmittfull , Anthony Challinor , Duncan Hanson , Antony Lewis

For those angular multipoles where cosmic variance is an issue, non-Gaussianities in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies will be hard to detect. Here, we construct explicitly the best unbiased estimator for the CMB angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro Gangui

We reconstruct the non-linear matter power spectrum $P(k)$ using a joint analysis of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and lensing of galaxies. This reconstruction is motivated by the $S_8$ tension between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Karen Perez Sarmiento , Alex Laguë , Mathew Madhavacheril , Bhuvnesh Jain , Blake Sherwin

Since the inhomogeneous instrument noise can produce extra non-Gaussianity in the CMB anisotropy, its effect should be carefully subtracted in the primordial non-Gaussianity estimation. We calculate the probability distribution function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 B. Yu , T. Lu

We study the effects of gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters of the background of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and examine the implications for Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-based (SZ) galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yashar Hezaveh , Keith Vanderlinde , Gilbert Holder , Tijmen de Haan

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonas Frugte , P. Daniel Meerburg

We study signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) induced by the presence of strong spatial curvature prior to the epoch of inflation which generated our present universe. If inflation does not last sufficiently long to drive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Tim Clunan , David Seery

The next-generation CMB experiments are expected to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ with high precision. Delensing is an important process as the observed CMB $B$-mode polarization that contains the primordial tensor perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 Chen Heinrich , Trey Driskell , Chris Heinrich

The phases of the Fourier transform of any linear cosmological perturbation may be random (the Gaussian case) or not (the non-Gaussian case). If a non-Gaussian inhomogeneity was generated during the inflationary era by some process of very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Baccigalupi

We discuss the non-Gaussian contribution to the power spectrum covariance of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies resulting through weak gravitational lensing angular deflections and the correlation of deflections with secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is gravitationally lensed by large-scale structure, which distorts observations of the primordial anisotropies in any given direction. Averaged over the sky, this important effect is routinely modelled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 G. Fabbian , J. Carron , A. Lewis , M. Lembo

Reconstructed maps of the lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will play a major role in precision cosmology in coming years. CMB lensing maps will enable calibration of the masses of high-redshift galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill