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LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: a full-sky measurement of gravitational lensing of the CMB
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LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: a full-sky measurement of gravitational lensing of the CMB

A. I. Lonappan, T. Namikawa, G. Piccirilli, P. Diego-Palazuelos, M. Ruiz-Granda, M. Migliaccio, C. Baccigalupi, N. Bartolo, D. Beck, K. Benabed, …
Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, Vol.2024(6), p.9
01/06/2024

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Astronomy & Astrophysics Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Particles & Fields Science & Technology
We explore the capability of measuring lensing signals in LiteBIRD full-sky polarization maps. With a 30 arcmin beam width and an impressively low polarization noise of 2.16 mu K-arcmin, LiteBIRD will be able to measure the full-sky polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) very precisely. This unique sensitivity also enables the reconstruction of a nearly full-sky lensing map using only polarization data, even considering its limited capability to capture small-scale CMB anisotropies. In this paper, we investigate the ability to construct a full-sky lensing measurement in the presence of Galactic foregrounds, finding that several possible biases from Galactic foregrounds should be negligible after component separation by harmonic-space internal linear combination. We find that the signal-to-noise ratio of the lensing is approximately 40 using only polarization data measured over 80% of the sky. This achievement is comparable to Planck's recent lensing measurement with both temperature and polarization and represents a four-fold improvement over Planck's polarization-only lensing measurement. The LiteBIRD lensing map will complement the Planck lensing map and provide several opportunities for cross-correlation science, especially in the northern hemisphere.
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