Constraining cosmic string parameters with curl mode of CMB lensing

Abstract

We present constraints on a cosmic string network with a measurement of weak gravitational lensing from CMB temperature map. The cosmic string network between observer and last scattering surface of CMB photons generates vector and/or tensor metric perturbations, and the deflection of CMB photons by these gravitational fields has curl mode which is not produced by the scalar metric perturbations. In this paper, we use the power spectrum of curl mode obtained from Planck to constrain the string tension, Gμ, and the reconnection probability, P. In demonstrating the parameter constraints with Planck curl mode, we also measure the lensing power spectrum from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) 2008 season data, which have better angular resolution with lower instrumental noise on a much smaller chunk of the sky. Assuming P=1, the upper bound on tension is Gμ= 6.6\times 10^{-5} with 2σ(95% C.L.), using curl mode from Planck, which is weaker than that from the small-scale temperature power spectrum. For small values of P, however, the constraint from curl mode becomes tighter compared to that from temperature power spectrum. For P\lsim 10^{-2}, we obtain the constraint on the combination of the string parameters as GμP^{-1}\leq 3.4\times 10^{-5} at more than 2σ(95% C.L.).

12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRD

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