Lensing contribution to the 21cm intensity bispectrum [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11372


Intensity maps of the 21cm emission line of neutral hydrogen are lensed by intervening large-scale structure, similar to the lensing of the cosmic microwave background temperature map. We extend previous work by calculating the lensing contribution to the full-sky 21cm bispectrum in redshift space. The lensing contribution tends to peak when equal-redshift fluctuations are lensed by a lower redshift fluctuation. At high redshift, lensing effects can become comparable to the contributions from density and redshift-space distortions.

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R. Kothari and R. Maartens
Thu, 28 Jan 21
12/64

Comments: 8 pages + 2 appendices + references