Galaxy-CMB Lensing

Details Galaxy-CMB Lensing Galaxy-CMB Lensing

2003-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305467v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

A long-standing problem in astrophysics is to measure the mass associated with galaxies. Gravitational lensing provides one of the cleanest ways to make this measurement. To date, the most powerful lensing probes of galactic mass have been multiply imaged QSO's (strong lensing of a background point source) and galaxy-galaxy lensing (weak deformation of many background galaxies). Here we point out that the mass associated with galaxies also lenses the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and this effect is potentially detectable in small scale experiments. The signal is small (roughly a few tenths of a microKelvin) but has a characteristic shape and extends out well beyond the visible region of the galaxy.

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