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arxiv: 1312.6645 · v2 · submitted 2013-12-23 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

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Evidence for Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization from Cross-correlation with the Cosmic Infrared Background

POLARBEAR Collaboration , P.A.R. Ade , Y. Akiba , A.E. Anthony , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , D. Barron , D. Boettger
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J. Borrill C. Borys S. Chapman Y. Chinone M. Dobbs T. Elleflot J. Errard G. Fabbian C. Feng D. Flanigan A. Gilbert W. Grainger N.W. Halverson M. Hasegawa K. Hattori M. Hazumi W.L. Holzapfel Y. Hori J. Howard P. Hyland Y. Inoue G.C. Jaehnig A. Jaffe B. Keating Z. Kermish R. Keskitalo T. Kisner M. Le Jeune A.T. Lee E.M. Leitch E. Linder M. Lungu F. Matsuda T. Matsumura X. Meng N.J. Miller H. Morii S. Moyerman M.J. Myers M. Navaroli H. Nishino H. Paar J. Peloton E. Quealy G. Rebeiz C.L. Reichardt P.L. Richards C. Ross K. Rotermund I. Schanning D.E. Schenck B.D. Sherwin A. Shimizu C. Shimmin M. Shimon P. Siritanasak G. Smecher H. Spieler N. Stebor B. Steinbach R. Stompor A. Suzuki S. Takakura A. Tikhomirov T. Tomaru B. Wilson A. Yadav O. Zahn
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We reconstruct the gravitational lensing convergence signal from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization data taken by the POLARBEAR experiment and cross-correlate it with Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) maps from the Herschel satellite. From the cross-spectra, we obtain evidence for gravitational lensing of the CMB polarization at a statistical significance of 4.0$\sigma$ and evidence for the presence of a lensing $B$-mode signal at a significance of 2.3$\sigma$. We demonstrate that our results are not biased by instrumental and astrophysical systematic errors by performing null-tests, checks with simulated and real data, and analytical calculations. This measurement of polarization lensing, made via the robust cross-correlation channel, not only reinforces POLARBEAR auto-correlation measurements, but also represents one of the early steps towards establishing CMB polarization lensing as a powerful new probe of cosmology and astrophysics.

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