Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-02-18
Astron.Astrophys.338:767-776,1998
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Weak lensing effects are known to introduce non-linear couplings in CMB temperature maps. In inflationary scenario, the primary CMB anisotropies are expected to form a 2D Gaussian map, for which, the probability distribution function of the ellipticity defined from the local temperature curvature matrix has a very specific shape. I show that lenses alter significantly the shape of this PDF, inducing an excess of elongated structures. The precise functional form is computed for both the field points and the temperature extrema. These analytical results are confirmed by numerical experiments on 10x10 square degree maps. These numerical results allow to investigate the effects of smoothing and to estimate the cosmic variance. For the best resolution and sky coverage of the Planck mission the signal to noise ratio for the statistical indicators presented here is about 3 to 6 depending on the cosmological models. A marginal detection should therefore be possible.
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