Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
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Cosmology with the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Louis Legrand , ICTP SAIFR, in São Paulo, Brasil

The image of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is deformed by the gravitational lensing of the matter in the Universe. In this talk I will show how we can reconstruct this lensing deflection field from CMB observations. I will then demonstrate how CMB lensing can put tight constraints on the content of the Universe, on the sum of the neutrino masses, and how it is a source of noise which can be removed to observe cosmic inflation. Lastly I will introduce a new CMB lensing estimator which will be key to optimally reconstruct the CMB lensing field with the next generation of experiments.

Kosmologie und Elementarteilchenphysik
16 Jan 2024, 14:15
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Online

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