The interplay of cmb temperature lensing power reconstruction with primordial non-gaussianity of local type

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In the current era of high-precision cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, the imprint of gravitational lensing on the CMB temperature is exploited as a source of valuable information. Especially the reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum is of great interest. The reconstruction from the optimal quadratic estimator of the lensing potential, though, is biased. As long as the intrinsic CMB fluctuations are Gaussian this bias is well understood and controlled. In the presence of non-Gaussian primordial curvature perturbations, however, the CMB also acquires a non-Gaussian structure mimicking the lensing signal. Concentrating on primordial non-Gaussianity of local type, we address the resulting bias by extracting the lensing potential power spectrum from large samples of simulated lensed CMB temperaturemaps comprising different values of fNL.We find that the bias is considerably larger than previous analytical calculations suggested. For current values of fNL and a sensitivity like that of the Planck mission, however, the bias is completely negligible on all but the largest angular scales ©2012 The Authors.

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Merkel, P. M., & Scḧafer, B. M. (2013). The interplay of cmb temperature lensing power reconstruction with primordial non-gaussianity of local type. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(1), 444–451. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts347

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