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Weak Gravitational Lensing of the CMB
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Weak gravitational lensing has several important effects on the cosmic microwave background (CMB): it changes the CMB power spectra, induces non-Gaussianities, and generates a B-mode polarization signal that is an important source of confusion for the signal from primordial gravitational waves. The lensing signal can also be used to help constrain cosmological parameters and lensing mass distributions. We review the origin and calculation of these effects. Topics include: lensing in General Relativity, the lensing potential, lensed temperature and polarization power spectra, implications for constraining inflation, non-Gaussian structure, reconstruction of the lensing potential, delensing, sky curvature corrections, simulations, cosmological parameter estimation, cluster mass reconstruction, and moving lenses/dipole lensing.
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A control variate technique using differenced estimates from realistic masked and isotropic simulations reduces the computational cost of CMB lensing bias calculations by a factor of three to five.
ACT DR6 yields a 2.3% precise CMB lensing power spectrum with A_lens = 1.013 ± 0.023 relative to Planck 2018 Lambda CDM, giving S8 = 0.818 ± 0.022 and no evidence for suppressed structure growth.
First CMB lensing reconstruction from two years of SPT-3G Summer temperature data yields A_comb = 1.015 ± 0.053 over 50 < L < 2000, consistent with Planck 2018 ΛCDM.
New upper limits on ultralight axion dark matter fraction (<1.5% at 10^{-26} eV, <9% at 10^{-25} eV at 95% CL) from combined CMB lensing data, plus marginal 2.1σ preference at 10^{-24.5} eV driven by few points.
A sign-switching dark energy model (Λ_s CDM) recovers positive effective neutrino masses (0.055 ± 0.050 eV) consistent with oscillation data, unlike ΛCDM which prefers negative values (-0.075 eV), for DESI DR2 + CMB + supernova fits with z_† > 2.4.
Phase transitions in dark sectors can generate CMB B-modes with amplitudes competitive with inflation but peaking at smaller angular scales.
Naive nonlinear modelling of non-cold matter produces an artificial preference for a subdominant ultralight axion dark matter component at m ≈ 10^{-24} eV via a lensing-like enhancement in the CMB power spectrum.
In a pion condensate, photons behave as massive particles and gravitational lensing gains a hadronic correction; the paper derives the modified ray equations and the deflection formula for a pionic-vortex black hole.
Final Planck CMB data confirms the flat 6-parameter ΛCDM model with Ω_c h² = 0.120 ± 0.001, Ω_b h² = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, n_s = 0.965 ± 0.004, τ = 0.054 ± 0.007, H_0 = 67.4 ± 0.5 km/s/Mpc, and no strong evidence for extensions.
Forecasts indicate SKAO cosmic shear can constrain S8 to 5% alone and 3% combined with LSST or Euclid, with added benefits from polarization and kinematics for separating lensing signals.
Modified IDE model with interaction parameter alpha ~0.01 from late-universe data shows H0 decreasing with redshift, tightening to 10^-5 when CMB priors are added.
Constructs a (D_τ,D_x)-manifold with N-correlators of N_t-objects using field theory, topology, algebra, statistics and Fourier transforms, and discusses applicability across cosmological scales.
Dust-cleaned CIB and CMB lensing cross-correlations yield f_NL^local = 43 ± 23, tightening constraints on local primordial non-Gaussianity.
BROOM is a Python package that applies ILC and GILC techniques for model-independent separation of CMB, SZ, and foreground signals in microwave data along with diagnostic and simulation utilities.
A tutorial deriving cosmological perturbation equations from inflation through reheating, with explicit gauge-invariant computations and Python scripts.
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Faster CMB lensing with control variates
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth
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CMB Lensing Reconstruction Using Two Years of Temperature Data from the SPT-3G Summer Survey
First CMB lensing reconstruction from two years of SPT-3G Summer temperature data yields A_comb = 1.015 ± 0.053 over 50 < L < 2000, consistent with Planck 2018 ΛCDM.
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing new signatures of ultralight axions with gravitational lensing
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Observable CMB B-modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions
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Ultra-light axion constraints from Planck and ACT: the role of nonlinear modelling
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Hadronic lensing
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Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters
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Weak Lensing with SKAO: Cosmic Shear Cosmology
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Redshift evolution of the Hubble constant: Constraints and new insights from an interacting dark energy model
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A $(D_\tau,D_x)$-manifold with $N$-correlators of $N_t$-objects
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New constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from large-scale cross-correlations of CMB lensing and the cosmic infrared background
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BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data
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