학술논문

Internal Delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization B-Modes with the POLARBEAR Experiment
Document Type
article
Source
Physical Review Letters. 124(13)
Subject
Particle and High Energy Physics
Physical Sciences
POLARBEAR Collaboration
astro-ph.CO
astro-ph.IM
gr-qc
Mathematical Sciences
Engineering
General Physics
Mathematical sciences
Physical sciences
Language
Abstract
Using only cosmic microwave background polarization data from the polarbear experiment, we measure B-mode polarization delensing on subdegree scales at more than 5σ significance. We achieve a 14% B-mode power variance reduction, the highest to date for internal delensing, and improve this result to 22% by applying for the first time an iterative maximum a posteriori delensing method. Our analysis demonstrates the capability of internal delensing as a means of improving constraints on inflationary models, paving the way for the optimal analysis of next-generation primordial B-mode experiments.