Primordial Power Spectrum reconstruction from CMB Weak Lensing Power Spectrum

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/10/081MaRDI QIDQ5061947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rajorshi Sushovan Chandra, Tarun Souradeep

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12253

zbMATH Keywords

CMBR theorycosmological parameters from CMBRgravitational lensinginflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Anisotropy in solid mechanics (74E10) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Monte Carlo methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M31) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum optics (81V80) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We use the modified Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm to reconstruct the Primordial Power Spectrum from the Weak Lensing Power spectrum reconstructed from the CMB anisotropies. This provides an independent window to observe and constrain the PPS $P_R(k)$ along different $k$ scales as compared to CMB Temperature Power Spectrum. The Weak Lensing Power spectrum does not contain secondary variations in power and hence is cleaner, unlike the Temperature Power spectrum which suffers from lensing which is visible in its PPS reconstructions. We demonstrate that the physical behaviour of the weak lensing kernel is different from the temperature kernel and reconstructs broad features over $k$. We provide an in-depth analysis of the error propagation using simulated data and Monte-Carlo sampling, based on Planck best-fit cosmological parameters to simulate the data and cosmic variance limited error bars. The error and initial condition analysis provides a clear picture of the optimal reconstruction region for the estimator and we provide and algorithm for $P_R(k)$ sampling to be used based on the given data, errors and its binning properties. Eventually we plan to use this method on actual mission data and provide a cross reference to PPS reconstructed from other sectors and any possible features in them.

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• Simulating weak lensing of CMB maps
• Cosmic inversion: II. An iterative method for reproducing the primordial spectrum from the CMB data

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