PIRSA:18010091

Gravitational lensing of the CMB: Self-consistency tests and other implications

Motloch, P. (2018). Gravitational lensing of the CMB: Self-consistency tests and other implications. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/18010091

Motloch, Pavel. Gravitational lensing of the CMB: Self-consistency tests and other implications. Perimeter Institute, Jan. 30, 2018, https://pirsa.org/18010091 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:18010091,
            doi = {10.48660/18010091},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/18010091},
            author = {Motloch, Pavel},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Gravitational lensing of the CMB: Self-consistency tests and other implications},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2018},
            month = {jan},
            note = {PIRSA:18010091 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Pavel Motloch University of Chicago

DOI 10.48660/18010091
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, which currently provide some of the most powerful cosmological data sets, will become much more constraining in the near future. While these measurements promise to teach us more about the nature of dark energy, inflation and neutrino physics, increased precision will require special attention dedicated to the data analysis. In this talk I will focus on the gravitational lensing of the CMB and some of its implications. By introducing a novel analysis technique, applying it to the Planck satellite data and commenting on improvements which will be possible with a CMB Stage 4 experiment, I will first show how we can utilize CMB gravitational lensing to probe self-consistency of the CMB data sets. Then I will overview how gravitational lensing induces non-Gaussian covariances between the CMB data and how these covariances affect constraints on the cosmological parameters.