CMBBpolarization to map the large-scale structures of the universe
- 18 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 63 (4) , 043501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.63.043501
Abstract
We explore the possibility of using B-type polarization of the cosmic microwave background to map the large-scale structures of the Universe taking advantage of the lens effects on the CMB polarization. The functional relation between the component with the primordial CMB polarization and the line-of-sight mass distribution is explicated. Noting that a sizable fraction (at least 40%) of the dark halo population which is responsible for this effect can also be detected in a galaxy weak lensing survey, we present statistical quantities that should exhibit a strong sensitivity to this overlapping. We stress that it would be a sound test of the gravitational instability picture, independent of many systematic effects that may hamper lensing detection in CMB or a galaxy survey alone. Moreover, we estimate the intrinsic cosmic variance of the amplitude of this effect to be less than 8% for a survey with a CMB beam. Its measurement would then provide us with an original means for constraining the cosmological parameters, more particularly, as it turns out, the cosmological constant
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