Lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps from the Millennium Simulation

Details Lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps from the Millennium Simulation Lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps from the Millennium Simulation

2008-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4145v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.396:668-679,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 11 figures, comments added, MNRAS in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14746.x

We have constructed the first all-sky CMB temperature and polarization lensed maps based on a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation, the Millennium Simulation (MS). We have exploited the lensing potential map obtained using a map-making procedure (Carbone et al. 2008) which integrates along the line-of-sight the MS dark matter distribution by stacking and randomizing the simulation boxes up to $z = 127$, and which semi-analytically supplies the large-scale power in the angular lensing potential that is not correctly sampled by the N-body simulation. The lensed sky has been obtained by properly modifying the latest version of the LensPix code (Lewis 2005) to account for the MS structures. We have also produced all-sky lensed maps of the so-called $\psi_E$ and $\psi_B$ potentials, which are directly related to the electric and magnetic types of polarization. The angular power spectra of the simulated lensed temperature and polarization maps agree well with semi-analytic estimates up to $l < 2500$, while on smaller scales we find a slight excess of power which we interpret as being due to non-linear clustering in the MS. We also observe how non-linear lensing power in the polarised CMB is transferred to large angular scales by suitably misaligned modes in the CMB and the lensing potential. This work is relevant in view of the future CMB probes, as a way to analyse the lensed sky and disentangle the contribution from primordial gravitational waves.

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