Lewis, A, Munshi, D and et al., The Planck Collaboration (2014) Planck 2013 results. XVII. Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 571 (A17). ISSN 0004-6361

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Abstract

On the arcminute angular scales probed by Planck, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are gently perturbed by gravitational lensing. Here we present a detailed study of this e_ect, detecting lensing independently in the 100, 143, and 217 GHz frequency bands with an overall significance of greater than 25_.We use the temperature-gradient correlations induced by lensing to reconstruct a (noisy) map of the CMB lensing potential, which provides an integrated measure of the mass distribution back to the CMB last-scattering surface. Our lensing potential map is significantly correlated with other tracers of mass, a fact which we demonstrate using several representative tracers of large-scale structure. We estimate the power spectrum of the lensing potential, finding generally good agreement with expectations from the best-fitting _CDM model for the Planck temperature power spectrum, showing that this measurement at z = 1100 correctly predicts the properties of the lower-redshift, latertime structures which source the lensing potential. When combined with the temperature power spectrum, our measurement provides degeneracy breaking power for parameter constraints; it improves CMB-alone constraints on curvature by a factor of two and also partly breaks the degeneracy between the amplitude of the primordial perturbation power spectrum and the optical depth to reionization, allowing a measurement of the optical depth to reionization which is independent of large-scale polarization data. Discarding scale information, our measurement corresponds to a 4% constraint on the amplitude of the lensing potential power spectrum, or a 2% constraint on the root-mean-squared amplitude of matter fluctuations at z _ 2.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	gravitational lensing: weak – methods: data analysis – cosmic background radiation – large-scale structure of Universe
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Depositing User:	Richard Chambers
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2015 14:01
Last Modified:	26 Jan 2018 12:16
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/57304

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