CMB lensing from Planck PR4 maps

TL;DR

This paper presents an improved reconstruction of the CMB lensing potential using Planck PR4 maps, achieving the tightest constraints on the lensing power spectrum and key cosmological parameters.

Contribution

The study introduces enhanced quadratic estimators and utilizes more data from Planck PR4 maps, resulting in a 20% increase in signal-to-noise and the most precise CMB lensing constraints to date.

Findings

20% increase in reconstruction signal-to-noise

Tightest constraint on CMB lensing power spectrum to date

Precise measurements of , H_0, and _m from CMB lensing and BAO

Abstract

We reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential on the latest Planck CMB PR4 (NPIPE) maps, which include slightly more data than the 2018 PR3 release, and implement quadratic estimators using more optimal filtering. We increase the reconstruction signal to noise by almost $20\%$, constraining the amplitude of the CMB-marginalized lensing power spectrum in units of the Planck 2018 best-fit to $1.004 \pm 0.024$ ($68\%$ limits), which is the tightest constraint on the CMB lensing power spectrum to date. For a base $\Lambda$CDM cosmology we find $\sigma_8 \Omega_m^{0.25} = 0.599\pm 0.016$ from CMB lensing alone in combination with weak priors and element abundance observations. Combination with baryon acoustic oscillation data gives tight $68\%$ constraints on individual $\Lambda$CDM parameters $\sigma_8 = 0.814\pm 0.016$, $H_0 = 68.1^{+1.0}_{-1.1}$km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, $\Omega_m = 0.313^{+0.014}_{-0.016}$. Planck polarized maps alone now constrain the lensing power to $7\%$.