2013

Planck 2013 results. XVII. Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure

Planck Collaboration, Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N. et al.

Understand

On the arcminute angular scales probed by Planck, the CMB anisotropies are gently perturbed by gravitational lensing.

  • Here we present a detailed study of this effect, detecting lensing independently in the 100, 143, and 217GHz frequency bands with an overall significance of greater than 25sigma.
  • We use the temperature-gradient correlations induced by lensing to reconstruct a (noisy) map of the CMB lensing potential, which provides an integrated measure of the mass distribution back to the CMB last-scattering surface.
  • Our lensing potential map is significantly correlated with other tracers of mass, a fact which we demonstrate using several representative tracers of large-scale structure.

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