Gravitational lensing of cosmic microwave background anisotropies and cosmological parameter estimation

Abstract

Gravitational lensing, caused by matter perturbations along the line-of-sight to the last scattering surface, can modify the shape of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum. We discuss the detectability of lensing distortions to the temperature, polarisation and temperature-polarisation cross-correlation power spectra and we analyse how lensing might affect the estimation of cosmological parameters. For cold dark matter-like models with present-day matter power spectra normalised to match the abundances of rich clusters of galaxies, gravitational lensing causes detectable distortions to cosmic variance limited CMB experiments sampling high multipoles (l > 1000). Gravitational lensing of the CMB, although a small effect, allows independent determinations of the curvature of the universe and the cosmological constant, i.e. breaking the so-called geometrical degeneracy in CMB parameter estimation discussed by Bond, Efstathiou and Tegmark (1997) and Zaldarriaga, Spergel and Seljak (1997). Gravitational lensing of the CMB temperature and polarisation patterns should be detectable by the Planck Surveyor satellite leading to useful independent constraints on the cosmological constant and spatial curvature.

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