Optimal filters for the moving lens effect

Authors :: Joel Meyers
Selim C. Hotinli
Matthew C. Johnson
Source :: Physical Review D. 103
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
Abstract: We assess the prospects for detecting the moving lens effect using cosmological surveys. The bulk motion of cosmological structure induces a small-scale dipolar temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave radiation (CMB), centered around halos and oriented along the transverse velocity field. We introduce a set of optimal filters for this signal, and forecast that a high significance detection can be made with upcoming experiments. We discuss the prospects for reconstructing the bulk transverse velocity field on large scales using matched filters, finding good agreement with previous work using quadratic estimators.<br />Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, v3: version published in PRD