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An excellent estimate of the lensing signal is expected from the availability of deep and high-resolution polarization data in the near future. This is most important to allow for efficient delensing, needed to detect the primordial B-mode…

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Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys are expected to provide valuable information about the primordial universe by creating maps of the mass along the line of sight. Traditional tools for creating these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Peikai Li , Ipek Ilayda Onur , Scott Dodelson , Shreyas Chaudhari

We present efficient algorithms for CMB lensing simulation and power spectrum es- timation for flat-sky CMB polarization maps. We build a pure B-mode estimator to remedy E to B leakage due to partial sky coverage. We show that our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-14 Thibaut Louis , Sigurd Næss , Sudeep Das , Joanna Dunkley , Blake Sherwin

We present a first internal delensing of CMB maps, both in temperature and polarization, using the public foreground-cleaned (SMICA) Planck 2015 maps. After forming quadratic estimates of the lensing potential, we use the corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Julien Carron , Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor

We study the morphology of convergence maps by perturbatively reconstructing their Minkowski Functionals (MFs). We present a systematics study using a set of three generalised skew-spectra as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , J. D. McEwen , T. D. Kitching , F. R. Bouchet

We develop a systematic and unified approach to estimate all possible secondary (i.e. non-primordial) nonlinear effects to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, named curve-of-sight integration approach. In this approach, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Naruko , Ryo Saito , Atsushi Taruya , Daisuke Yamauchi

I describe a method to estimate response matrices of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing power spectra estimators to the true sky power under realistic conditions. Applicable to all lensing reconstruction pipelines based on quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Julien Carron

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is the leading non-linear effect on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The integrated line-of-sight mass that causes the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Alba Kalaja , Giorgio Orlando , Aleksandr Bowkis , Anthony Challinor , P. Daniel Meerburg , Toshiya Namikawa

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

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the 500 deg$^{2}$ SPTpol survey to measure the stacked lensing convergence of galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 redMaPPer (RM) cluster catalog. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. L. Chou , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , E. Rozo , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. Annis , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. A. Beall , K. Bechtol , A. N. Bender , G. Bernstein , E. Bertin , F. Bianchini , L. Bleem , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , A. T. Crites , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , W. Everett , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , Z. Hou , B. Hoyle , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , A. G. Kim , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , A. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Carnero Rosell , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , G. Smecher , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , Y. Zhang

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

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

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

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 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

We present a concept study on weak lensing map reconstruction through the cosmic magnification effect in galaxy number density distribution. We propose a minimal variance linear estimator to minimize both the dominant systematical and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-16 Xinjuan Yang , Pengjie Zhang

Matter inhomogeneities along the line of sight deflect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons originating at the last scattering surface at redshift $z \sim 1100$. These distortions modify the pattern of CMB polarization. We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

In our previous study, we introduced a machine-learning technique, namely CMBFSCNN, for the removal of foreground contamination in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data. This method was successfully employed on actual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Guo-Jian Wang , Zirui Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai