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We investigate the effect of gravitational lensing by matter distribution in the universe on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization power spectra and temperature-polarization cross-correlation spectrum. As in the case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Matias Zaldarriaga , Uros Seljak

We discuss a possibility to directly reconstruct the CMB polarization field at the last scattering surface by accounting for modifications imposed by the gravitational lensing effect. The suggested method requires a tracer field of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

Gravitational lensing information from the two and higher point statistics of the CMB temperature and polarization fields are intrinsically correlated because they are lensed by the same realization of structure between last scattering and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

We develop the first algorithm able to jointly compute the maximum {\it a posteriori} estimate of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields, the gravitational potential by which they are lensed, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing is an integrated effect whose kernel is greater than half the peak value in the range $1<z<5$. Measuring this effect offers a powerful tool to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Toshiya Namikawa , Benjamin Bose , François R. Bouchet , Ryuichi Takahashi , Atsushi Taruya

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

Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields and encodes valuable information on distances and growth rates at intermediate redshifts into the lensed power spectra. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kendrick M. Smith , Wayne Hu , Manoj Kaplinghat

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) brings out information not only on the early universe but also on the late-time large-scale structure via weak gravitational lensing. Here, we show that circular polarization is induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yusuke Nishida

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

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

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 lensing convergence field describing the weak lensing effect of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is expected to be subject to mild deviations from Gaussianity. We perform a suite of full-sky lensing simulations using ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jan Hamann , Yuqi Kang

We show how observations of temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to extract information related to the large scale structure, including dark matter distribution, pressure and halo velocities involving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a precious window on fundamental physics at very high energy scales, possibly including quantum gravity, GUTs and supersymmetry. The CMB has already enabled defect-based rivals to inflation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-11 John Ellis

Lensing of the CMB by modes that are larger than the size of the survey dilates intrinsic scales in the temperature and polarization fields and coherently shifts their observed power spectra with respect to the ensemble or all-sky mean. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Alessandro Manzotti , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

The temperature fluctuations and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are now a well-known probe of the Universe at an infant age of 400,000 years. During the transit to us from the surface of last scattering, the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-19 Joseph Smidt , Asantha Cooray , Alexandre Amblard , Shahab Joudaki , Dipak Munshi , Mario G. Santos , Paolo Serra

The effect of gravitational lensing on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies is investigated using the power spectrum approach. The lensing effect can be calculated in any cosmological model by specifying the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Uros Seljak

We explore the capability of measuring lensing signals in $LiteBIRD$ full-sky polarization maps. With a $30$ arcmin beam width and an impressively low polarization noise of $2.16\,\mu$K-arcmin, $LiteBIRD$ will be able to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , G. Piccirilli , P. Diego-Palazuelos , M. Ruiz-Granda , M. Migliaccio , C. Baccigalupi , N. Bartolo , D. Beck , K. Benabed , A. Challinor , J. Errard , S. Farrens , A. Gruppuso , N. Krachmalnicoff , E. Martínez-González , V. Pettorino , B. Sherwin , J. Starck , P. Vielva , R. Akizawa , A. Anand , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , S. Azzoni , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , M. Bersanelli , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Conenna , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Georges , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Masi , M. Massa , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , A. Moggi , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , P. Natoli , A. Novelli , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , V. Pavlidou , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , G. Puglisi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , H. Tanimura , A. Tartari , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

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