Cosmic Shear of the Microwave Background: The Curl Diagnostic

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2005-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503002v1

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 123527

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 3 figures; PRD submitted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.123527

Weak-lensing distortions of the cosmic-microwave-background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns can reveal important clues to the intervening large-scale structure. The effect of lensing is to deflect the primary temperature and polarization signal to slightly different locations on the sky. Deflections due to density fluctuations, gradient-type for the gradient of the projected gravitational potential, give a direct measure of the mass distribution. Curl-type deflections can be induced by, for example, a primordial background of gravitational waves from inflation or by second-order effects related to lensing by density perturbations. Whereas gradient-type deflections are expected to dominate, we show that curl-type deflections can provide a useful test of systematics and serve to indicate the presence of confusing secondary and foreground non-Gaussian signals.

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