Weak Lensing of the CMB by Large Scale Structure

Details Weak Lensing of the CMB by Large Scale Structure Weak Lensing of the CMB by Large Scale Structure

Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005iaus..225..105a&link_type=abstract

Gravitational Lensing Impact on Cosmology, IAU Symposium, vol. 225. Edited by Yannick Mellier and Georges Meylan, ISBN 052185196

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Several recent papers have studied lensing of the CMB by large-scale structures, which probes the projected matter distribution from z=103 to z≃ 0. This interest is motivated in part by upcoming high resolution, high sensitivity CMB experiments, such as APEX/SZ, ACT, SPT or Planck, which should be sensitive to lensing. In this paper we examine the reconstruction of the large-scale dark matter distribution from lensed CMB temperature anisotropies. We go beyond previous work in using numerical simulations to include higher order, non-Gaussian effects and find that the convergence and its power spectrum are biased, with the bias increasing with the angular resolution. We also study the contamination by the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal, which is spectrally indistinguishable from lensed CMB anisotropies, and find that it leads to an overestimate of the convergence. We finish by estimating the sensitivity of the previously cited experiments and find that all of them could detect the lensing effect, but would be biased at around the 10% level.

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