# A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

## TL;DR

This paper measures the CMB lensing potential and power spectrum using 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol data, providing highly precise polarization-based constraints consistent with the mbda CDM model.

## Contribution

It presents the most precise polarization-only CMB lensing amplitude measurement to date, improving constraints on the lensing potential using combined temperature and polarization data.

## Key findings

- Lensing potential reconstructed with high signal-to-noise at multipoles $L \,\lesssim\, 250$.
- Lensing amplitude consistent with mbda CDM predictions within uncertainties.
- Achieved the most precise polarization-only lensing amplitude constraint to date.

## Abstract

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode greater than unity at lensing multipoles $L \lesssim 250$, using a quadratic estimator on a combination of CMB temperature and polarization maps. We report measurements of the lensing potential power spectrum in the multipole range of $100< L < 2000$ from sets of temperature-only, polarization-only, and minimum-variance estimators. We measure the lensing amplitude by taking the ratio of the measured spectrum to the expected spectrum from the best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model to the $\textit{Planck}$ 2015 TT+lowP+lensing dataset. For the minimum-variance estimator, we find $A_{\rm{MV}} = 0.944 \pm 0.058{\rm (Stat.)}\pm0.025{\rm (Sys.)}$; restricting to only polarization data, we find $A_{\rm{POL}} = 0.906 \pm 0.090 {\rm (Stat.)} \pm 0.040 {\rm (Sys.)}$. Considering statistical uncertainties alone, this is the most precise polarization-only lensing amplitude constraint to date (10.1 $\sigma$), and is more precise than our temperature-only constraint. We perform null tests and consistency checks and find no evidence for significant contamination.