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We forecast the ability of future CMB and galaxy lensing surveys to constrain variations of the fine structure constant. We found that lensing data, as those expected from satellite experiments as Euclid could improve the constraint from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Matteo Martinelli , Eloisa Menegoni , Alessandro Melchiorri

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) represents a unique source for the study of gravitational lensing. It is extended across the entire sky, partially polarized, located at the extreme distance of z=1100, and is thought to have the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Duncan Hanson , Anthony Challinor , Antony Lewis

We present current and future constraints on equations of state for dark sector perturbations. The equations of state considered are those corresponding to a generalized scalar field model and time-diffeomorphism invariant $L(g)$ theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 Richard A. Battye , Adam Moss , Jonathan A. Pearson

Weak gravitational lensing leaves a characteristic imprint on the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization angular power spectra. Here we investigate the possible constraints on the integrated lensing potential from future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Erminia Calabrese , Asantha Cooray , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano , Anze Slosar , George F. Smoot

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

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter ${S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}}$, obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in the data, and limiting our ability to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Cyrille Doux , Tanvi Karwal

We propose a method for cosmographic measurements by combining gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with cosmic shear surveys. We cross-correlate the galaxy counts in the lens plane with two different source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 Sudeep Das , David N. Spergel

The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential has established itself by now as a robust way of probing the physics of large-scale structure growth. The most common estimators of the lensing potential are derived under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Dominic Beck , Giulio Fabbian , Josquin Errard

Cross-correlation between weak lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and weak lensing of galaxies offers a way to place robust constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters with reduced sensitivity to certain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 S. Shaikh , I. Harrison , A. van Engelen , G. A. Marques , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , A. Amon , R. An , D. Bacon , N. Battaglia , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , E. Calabrese , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , S. K. Choi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , O. Darwish , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , M. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , J. Elvin-Poole , G. S. Farren , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , S. Giardiello , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , J. C. Hill , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , K. M. Huffenberger , D. Huterer , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , H. T. Jense , K. Knowles , J. Kim , D. Kramer , O. Lahav , S. Lee , M. Lima , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , J. L. Marshall , J. McCullough , Y. Mehta , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , L. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , Y. Omori , S. Pandey , B. Partridge , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , F. J. Qu , N. Robertson , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , L. F. Secco , N. Sehgal , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , T. Shin , C. Sifón M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , C. Vargas , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , J. Zuntz

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

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

The lensing convergence measurable with future CMB surveys like CMB-S4 will be highly correlated with the clustering observed by deep photometric large scale structure (LSS) surveys such as the LSST, with cross-correlation coefficient as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Marcel Schmittfull , Uros Seljak

We present the first detection of a correlation between the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. For each Lyman-$\alpha$ forest in SDSS-III/BOSS DR12, we correlate the one-dimensional power spectrum with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Cyrille Doux , Emmanuel Schaan , Eric Aubourg , Ken Ganga , Khee-Gan Lee , David N. Spergel , Julien Tréguer

Cosmology from weak gravitational lensing has been limited by astrophysical uncertainties in baryonic feedback and intrinsic alignments. By calibrating these effects using external data, we recover non-linear information, achieving a 2%…

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Benjamin Horowitz , Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

Weak lensing is a potentially robust and model-independent cosmological probe, but its accuracy is dependent on knowledge of the redshift distribution of the source galaxies used. The most robust way to determine the redshift distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata

In order to reach the required performance of Stage-III and IV weak lensing surveys, cosmic shear measurements have to rely on external simulations to calibrate residual biases. Over the years, several techniques have been developed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 G. Congedo , A. N. Taylor

In this article, we do a thorough investigation of the competency of the forthcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Galaxy surveys in probing the features in the primordial power spectrum. Primordial features are specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Debabrata Chandra , Supratik Pal