Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background

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dc.creatorSmith, Kendrick M.
dc.creatorZahn, Oliver
dc.creatorDore, Olivier
dc.date2007-05-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:13:32Z
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dc.descriptionGravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a long-standing prediction of the standard cosmolgical model, is ultimately expected to be an important source of cosmological information, but first detection has not been achieved to date. We report a 3.4 sigma detection, by applying quadratic estimator techniques to all sky maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, and correlating the result with radio galaxy counts from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). We present our methodology including a detailed discussion of potential contaminants. Our error estimates include systematic uncertainties from density gradients in NVSS, beam effects in WMAP, Galactic microwave foregrounds, resolved and unresolved CMB point sources, and the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect.
dc.description27 pages, 20 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3980
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3980
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D76:043510,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043510
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/210878
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleDetection of Gravitational Lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background
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