Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL
Scientific paper
We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing reconstruction where a reconstruction bias needs to be subtracted to estimate the lensing power spectrum. This bias depends very sensitively on the modeling of the signal and noise properties of the survey, and a misestimate can lead to significantly inaccurate results. Our method obviates this bias and hence the need to characterize the detailed noise properties of the CMB experiment. We illustrate our method with simulated lensed CMB maps with realistic noise distributions. This bias-free method can also be extended to create much more reliable estimators for other four-point functions in cosmology, such as those appearing in primordial non-Gaussianity estimators.
Das Sudeep
Sherwin Blake D.
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