Bibcode
Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartolo, N.; Basak, S.; Battaner, E.; Benabed, K.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bock, J. J.; Bonaldi, A.; Bonavera, L.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Calabrese, E.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Catalano, A.; Chiang, H. C.; Christensen, P. R.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Combet, C.; Crill, B. P.; Curto, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Doré, O.; Ducout, A.; Dupac, X.; Elsner, F.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Franceschi, E.; Galeotta, S.; Galli, S.; Ganga, K.; Ghosh, T.; Giard, M.; Giraud-Héraud, Y.; Gjerløw, E.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gruppuso, A.; Gudmundsson, J. E.; Harrison, D. L.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hornstrup, A.; Hovest, W.; Hurier, G.; Jaffe, A. H.; Jones, W. C.; Keihänen, E.; Keskitalo, R.; Kisner, T. S.; Knoche, J.; Knox, L.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Lagache, G.; Lähteenmäki, A.; Lamarre, J.-M.; Lasenby, A.; Lattanzi, M.; Leonardi, R.; Levrier, F.; Lilje, P. B.; Linden-Vørnle, M.; López-Caniego, M.; Lubin, P. M.; Macías-Pérez, J. F.; Maffei, B.; Maggio, G.; Maino, D.; Mandolesi, N.; Mangilli, A.; Maris, M. et al.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 596, id.A102, 19 pp.
Fecha de publicación:
12
2016
Revista
Número de citas
31
Número de citas referidas
30
Descripción
The secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-modes stem from the
post-decoupling distortion of the polarization E-modes due to the
gravitational lensing effect of large-scale structures. These
lensing-induced B-modes constitute both a valuable probe of the dark
matter distribution and an important contaminant for the extraction of
the primary CMB B-modes from inflation. Planck provides accurate nearly
all-sky measurements of both the polarization E-modes and the integrated
mass distribution via the reconstruction of the CMB lensing potential.
By combining these two data products, we have produced an all-sky
template map of the lensing-induced B-modes using a real-space algorithm
that minimizes the impact of sky masks. The cross-correlation of this
template with an observed (primordial and secondary) B-mode map can be
used to measure the lensing B-mode power spectrum at multipoles up to
2000. In particular, when cross-correlating with the B-mode contribution
directly derived from the Planck polarization maps, we obtain
lensing-induced B-mode power spectrum measurement at a significance
level of 12σ, which agrees with the theoretical expectation
derived from the Planck best-fit Λ cold dark matter model. This
unique nearly all-sky secondary B-mode template, which includes the
lensing-induced information from intermediate to small (10 ≲ ℓ
≲ 1000) angular scales, is delivered as part of the Planck 2015
public data release. It will be particularly useful for experiments
searching for primordial B-modes, such as BICEP2/Keck Array or LiteBIRD,
since it will enable an estimate to be made of the lensing-induced
contribution to the measured total CMB B-modes.