English

Lensing reconstruction from a patchwork of polarization maps

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-19 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

The lensing signals involved in CMB polarization maps have already been measured with ground-based experiments such as SPTpol and POLARBEAR, and would become important as a probe of cosmological and astrophysical issues in the near future. Sizes of polarization maps from ground-based experiments are, however, limited by contamination of long wavelength modes of observational noise. To further extract the lensing signals, we explore feasibility of measuring lensing signals from a collection of small sky maps each of which is observed separately by a ground-based large telescope, i.e., lensing reconstruction from a patchwork map of large sky coverage organized from small sky patches. We show that, although the B-mode power spectrum obtained from the patchwork map is biased due to baseline uncertainty, bias on the lensing potential would be negligible if the B-mode on scales larger than the blowup scale of 1/f1/f noise is removed in the lensing reconstruction. As examples of cosmological applications, we also show 1) the cross-correlations between the reconstructed lensing potential and full-sky temperature/polarization maps from satellite missions such as PLANCK and LiteBIRD, and 2) the use of the reconstructed potential for delensing B-mode polarization of LiteBIRD observation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1405.6568,
  title  = {Lensing reconstruction from a patchwork of polarization maps},
  author = {Toshiya Namikawa and Ryo Nagata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6568},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

22 pages, 11 figures, replaced to match the published version in JCAP

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