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弱透镜巡天能确认BICEP2吗?

Can weak lensing surveys confirm BICEP2 ?

Nora Elisa Chisari, Cora Dvorkin, Fabian Schmidt

摘要:

BICEP 2实验在宇宙微波背景(CMB)偏振中探测到B模,如果被解释为原始引力波背景的证据,对宇宙学和物理学有巨大的影响。用独立的测量来检验这一假设是至关重要的。一个引力波背景导致B-模式的星系形状相关性(剪切)通过透镜和潮汐排列效应。由于星系形状和CMB偏振的系统学和前景是完全不同的,检测到这两个观测值之间的互相关将为原始引力波背景的存在提供确凿的证据。我们发现,即将到来的弱透镜调查将能够检测到的CMB和星系形状的B-模式之间的互相关。然而,这种检测不足以证实或证伪CMB B模式偏振的原始起源的假设。

英文摘要:

The detection of B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology and physics. It is crucial to test this hypothesis with independent measurements. A gravitational wave background leads to B-modes in galaxy shape correlations (shear) both through lensing and tidal alignment effects. Since the systematics and foregrounds of galaxy shapes and CMB polarization are entirely different, a detection of a cross-correlation between the two observables would provide conclusive proof for the existence of a primordial gravitational wave background. We find that upcoming weak lensing surveys will be able to detect the cross-correlation between B-modes of the CMB and galaxy shapes. However, this detection is not sufficient to confirm or falsify the hypothesis of a primordial origin for CMB B-mode polarization.

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