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Planck 2015 results XV. Gravitational lensing
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Number of Authors: 2292016 (English)In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISSN 0004-6361, E-ISSN 1432-0746, Vol. 594, article id A15Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We present the most significant measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential to date (at a level of 40 sigma), using temperature and polarization data from the Planck 2015 full-mission release. Using a polarization-only estimator, we detect lensing at a significance of 5 sigma. We cross-check the accuracy of our measurement using the wide frequency coverage and complementarity of the temperature and polarization measurements. Public products based on this measurement include an estimate of the lensing potential over approximately 70% of the sky, an estimate of the lensing potential power spectrum in bandpowers for the multipole range 40 <= L <= 400, and an associated likelihood for cosmological parameter constraints. We find good agreement between our measurement of the lensing potential power spectrum and that found in the Lambda CDM model that best fits the Planck temperature and polarization power spectra. Using the lensing likelihood alone we obtain a percent-level measurement of the parameter combination sigma(8) Omega(0.25)(m) = 0.591 +/- 0.021. We combine our determination of the lensing potential with the E-mode polarization, also measured by Planck, to generate an estimate of the lensing B-mode. We show that this lensing B-mode estimate is correlated with the B-modes observed directly by Planck at the expected level and with a statistical significance of 10 sigma, confirming Planck's sensitivity to this known sky signal. We also correlate our lensing potential estimate with the large-scale temperature anisotropies, detecting a cross-correlation at the 3 sigma level, as expected because of dark energy in the concordance Lambda CDM model.

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2016. Vol. 594, article id A15
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gravitational lensing: weak, cosmological parameters, cosmic background radiation, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology: observations
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-140353DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525941ISI: 000385832200020Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84991071202OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-140353DiVA, id: diva2:1079288
Available from: 2017-03-08 Created: 2017-03-08 Last updated: 2022-10-18Bibliographically approved

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