English
Related papers

Related papers: Weak Lensing of the CMB: Sampling Errors on B-Mode…

200 papers

The search for primordial gravitational waves is a central goal of cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. Isolating the characteristic $B$-mode polarization signal sourced by primordial gravitational waves is challenging for several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

On the basis of the quantum Boltzmann equation governing the time-evolution of the density matrix of polarized CMB photons in the primordial scalar perturbations of metric, we calculate the B-mode spectrum of polarized CMB photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Rohoollah Mohammadi , She-Sheng Xue

The detection of B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology and physics. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin , Fabian Schmidt

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Julien Carron , Enea di Dio , Ruth Durrer

Gravitational lensing of the microwave background by the intervening dark matter mainly arises from large-angle fluctuations in the projected gravitational potential and hence offers a unique opportunity to study the physics of the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Wayne Hu

It is known that in contrast with the E-mode polarization, the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background cannot be generated by the Compton scattering in the case of scalar mode of metric perturbation. However it is possible to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Mahdi Sadegh , She-Sheng Xue

Cosmological Birefringence (CB) is a phenomenon, caused by parity violating modifications to electrodynamics, whereby the linear polarisation angle of light changes as photons traverse a vacuum. It is possible to use a number of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Joel Williams , Aditya Rotti , Richard Battye

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

We investigate which practical constraints are imposed by foregrounds to the detection of the B-mode polarization generated by gravitational waves in the case of experiments of the type currently being planned. Because the B-mode signal is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Tucci , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Vielva , J. Delabrouille

One of the major targets for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments is the detection of the primordial B-mode signal. Planning is under way for Stage-IV experiments that are projected to have instrumental noise small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Zhen Pan , Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox

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 evaluate the ability of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to measure the power spectrum of large scale structure using quadratic estimators of the weak lensing deflection field. We calculate the sensitivity of upcoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julien Lesgourgues , Laurence Perotto , Sergio Pastor , Michel Piat

A detection of excess cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization on large scales allows the possibility of measuring not only the amplitude of these fluctuations but also their scale dependence, which can be parametrized as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gabrielle Simard , Duncan Hanson , Gil Holder

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

In this work, according to some evidence from being an asymmetry in the number density of left and right-handed electrons, $\delta_L$, in-universe motivate us to calculate the dominated contribution of this asymmetry in the generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Rohoollah Mohammadi , Mahdi Sadegh , Ali Vahedi

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarisation provide a unique probe of inflationary physics. Extracting a reliable constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ nonetheless demands stringent suppression of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aliza Mustafa , Alessandro Carones , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Marina Migliaccio , Carlo Baccigalupi

Weak lensing of the CMB changes the unlensed temperature anisotropy and polarization power spectra. Accounting for the lensing effect will be crucial to obtain accurate parameter constraints from sensitive CMB observations. Methods for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Challinor , Antony Lewis

Future experiments will produce high-resolution temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and are expected to reveal the signature of gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structures. We construct all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›