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Title: Impact of Galactic non-Gaussian foregrounds on CMB lensing measurements

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/jhmr-mg6w · OSTI ID:3008500
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  1. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology; Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  3. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
  4. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)
  5. Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland)
  6. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  7. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  8. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been established as a robust and powerful observable for precision cosmology. However, the impact of Galactic foregrounds, which has been studied less extensively than many other potential systematics, could in principle pose a problem for CMB lensing measurements. These foregrounds are inherently non-Gaussian and hence might mimic the characteristic signal that lensing estimators are designed to measure. We present an analysis that quantifies the level of contamination from Galactic dust in lensing measurements, focusing particularly on measurements with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. We employ a whole suite of foreground models and study the contamination of lensing measurements with both individual frequency channels and multifrequency combinations. We test the sensitivity of different estimators to the level of foreground non-Gaussianity and the dependence on sky fraction and multipole range used. We find that Galactic foregrounds do not present a problem for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope experiment (the bias in the inferred CMB lensing power spectrum amplitude remains below 0.3σ). For Simons Observatory, not all foreground models remain below this threshold. Although our results are conservative upper limits, they suggest that further work on characterizing dust biases and determining the impact of mitigation methods is well motivated, especially for the largest sky fractions.

Research Organization:
State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0025309
OSTI ID:
3008500
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 112; ISSN 2470-0010; ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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