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The measurement and characterization of the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is key goal of the current and next generation of CMB experiments. We perform a case study of a three-channel balloon-borne CMB experiment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi , Samuel Leach , Amit P. S. Yadav

We discuss the four-point correlation function, or the trispectrum in Fourier space, of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies due to the weak gravitational lensing effect by intervening large scale structure. We discuss the squared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray , Michael Kesden

The rapidly improving precision of measurements of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) also requires a corresponding increase in the precision of theoretical modeling. A commonly made approximation is to model the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Vanessa Böhm , Marcel Schmittfull , Blake D. Sherwin

We show for the first time that high-resolution CMB lensing observations can probe structure on sub-galactic scales. In particular, a CMB-HD experiment can probe out to k ~ 55 h/Mpc, corresponding to halo masses of about $10^8 M_{\odot}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Amanda MacInnis , Neelima Sehgal

In the current era of high-precision CMB experiments, the imprint of gravitational lensing on the CMB temperature is exploited as a source of valuable information. Especially the reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

The Planck mission has conclusively detected lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation from foreground sources to an overall significance of greater than $25\sigma$. The high precision of this measurement motivates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 S. -C. Su , Eugene A. Lim

Weak lensing effects are known to introduce non-linear couplings in CMB temperature maps. In inflationary scenario, the primary CMB anisotropies are expected to form a 2D Gaussian map, for which, the probability distribution function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Bernardeau

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

We reconstruct shear maps and angular power spectra from simulated weakly lensed total intensity (TT) and polarised (EB) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, obtained using Born approximated ray-tracing through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-04 Claudia Antolini , Yabebal Fantaye , Matteo Martinelli , Carmelita Carbone , Carlo Baccigalupi

We extend our maximum likelihood method for reconstructing the cluster-mass cross-correlation from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and develop new estimators that utilize six different quadratic combinations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Jaiyul Yoo , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

CMB lensing reconstructions are a sensitive probe of the growth of structure across cosmic time and a key tool to sharpen investigations of the very early Universe via delensing. At present, a large fraction of this information is drawn…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 A. Baleato Lizancos , W. Coulton , A. Challinor , B. D. Sherwin , Y. Mehta

We discuss the effect of unresolved point source contamination on estimates of the CMB lensing potential, from components such as the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, radio point sources, and the Cosmic Infrared Background. We classify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. J. Osborne , D. Hanson , O. Doré

CMB anisotropies are modified by the weak lensing effect of intervening large scale structures on the photon path from the last scattering surface to the observer. This has to be accounted for when observational data of sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Jonathan Rocher , Karim Benabed , Francois Bouchet

The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide our best laboratory for testing models of the formation and evolution of large-scale structure. The rich features in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectrum, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is gravitationally lensed by large-scale structure, which distorts observations of the primordial anisotropies in any given direction. Averaged over the sky, this important effect is routinely modelled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 G. Fabbian , J. Carron , A. Lewis , M. Lembo

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 study the gravitational lensing effect on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies performing a ray-tracing of the primordial CMB photons through intervening large-scale structures (LSS) distribution predicted by N-Body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-09 Matteo Calabrese , Carmelita Carbone , Giulio Fabbian , Marco Baldi , Carlo Baccigalupi

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

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and dark energy equation of state.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan , Toshiya Namikawa , Arthur Kosowsky

We investigate the non-Gaussian signatures in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps induced by the intervening large-scale structure through weak lensing. In order to measure the deviation from the Gaussian behavior of the intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Schmalzing , Masahiro Takada , Toshifumi Futamase