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Improving Cosmic Birefringence Constraints via Delensing

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-07-08 v2

Abstract

We present a study on using delensing to enhance cosmic birefringence measurements based on full-sky, map-based simulations. In our analysis, we neglect foreground contamination and instrumental systematics to isolate the intrinsic impact of delensing on both isotropic and anisotropic birefringence. For the isotropic case, assuming a constant rotation angle of β=0.35\beta = 0.35^\circ, delensing reduces the lensing-induced variance in the EB power spectrum, yielding an improvement in sensitivity of approximately 10% at 6 μ\muK-arcmin noise and 25-40% at lower noise levels. For the anisotropic case, using simulations at 1 μ\muK-arcmin noise, we reconstruct the birefringence angle for a scale-invariant spectrum and mitigate lensing bias by delensing, achieving a 50% reduction in the leading N(0)N_{(0)} bias and a 30% improvement in the constraints on the amplitude ACBA_{CB}. Our results demonstrate that delensing is an effective tool for enhancing the detectability of subtle parity-violating signals in the cosmic microwave background with forthcoming experiments such as the Simons Observatory, CMB-S4, and LiteBIRD.

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@article{arxiv.2503.04708,
  title  = {Improving Cosmic Birefringence Constraints via Delensing},
  author = {Anto Idicherian Lonappan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04708},
  year   = {2025}
}
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