• Title of article

    Weak gravitational lensing of the CMB

  • Author/Authors

    Lewis، نويسنده , , Antony and Challinor، نويسنده , , Anthony، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    65
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    65
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    cosmic microwave background , gravitational lensing
  • Journal title
    Physics Reports
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Physics Reports
  • Record number

    2191758