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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…

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By reducing variance induced by gravitational lensing, likelihood-based de-lensing techniques have true potential to extract significantly more information from deep and high-resolution Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Julien Carron

[Abridged] Recent results from the BICEP, Keck Array and Planck Collaborations demonstrate that Galactic foregrounds are an unavoidable obstacle in the search for evidence of inflationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Josquin Errard , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew H. Jaffe

The detection of primordial B-modes, a key probe of cosmic inflation, is increasingly challenged by contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by large-scale structure (LSS). We present a delensing pipeline designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Yi-Ming Wang , Hong Li

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

We discuss upcoming opportunities with cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations during the post-WMAP era. The curl-modes of CMB polarization probe inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs). While a significant source of confusion is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

We develop a Feynman diagram approach to calculating correlations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in the presence of distortions. As one application, we focus on CMB distortions due to gravitational lensing by Large Scale Structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Amit P. S. Yadav

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is an important cosmological tool that allows us to learn about the structure, composition and evolution of the Universe. Upcoming CMB experiments, such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Mark Mirmelstein , Giulio Fabbian , Antony Lewis , Julien Peloton

Weak gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structure induces a distinct signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that can be used to reconstruct the weak-lensing displacement map. Estimators for individual Fourier modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Kesden , Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski

The bispectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generated by a correlation between a time-dependent gravitational potential and the weak gravitational lensing effect provides a direct measurement of the influence of dark energy on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Veronika Junk , Eiichiro Komatsu

Estimating the cosmological microwave background is of utmost importance for cosmology. However, its estimation from full-sky surveys such as WMAP or more recently Planck is challenging: CMB maps are generally estimated via the application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , J. Fadili

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

We propose a hybrid quadratic estimator to measure cross correlations between gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and differential screening effects arising from fluctuations in the electron column density, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

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

The study of cosmic birefringence through Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments is a key research area in cosmology and particle physics, providing a critical test for Lorentz and CPT symmetries. This paper focuses on an upcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yiwei Zhong , Hongbo Cai , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Mingzhe Li , Wenjuan Fang

The cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing and large-scale structure tracers will be an important cosmological probe in the coming years. Quadratic estimators provide a simple and powerful (if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Giulio Fabbian , Antony Lewis , Dominic Beck

The effects of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been measured at high significance with existing data and will be measured even more precisely in future surveys. Reversing the effects of lensing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Selim C. Hotinli , Joel Meyers , Cynthia Trendafilova , Daniel Green , Alexander van Engelen

Cosmological structures grow differently in theories of gravity which are modified as compared to Einstein's General relativity (GR). Cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuation patterns at the last scattering surface are lensed by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Toshiya Namikawa , François R. Bouchet , Atsushi Taruya

Compensated isocurvature perturbations are opposite spatial fluctuations in the baryon and dark matter (DM) densities. They arise in the curvaton model and some models of baryogenesis. While the gravitational effects of baryon fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Chen Heinrich

We develop a method of reconstructing the lensing field from lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps in real space as an alternative to the harmonic space estimators currently in use by extending an existing real space lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Heather Prince , Kavilan Moodley , Jethro Ridl , Martin Bucher