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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 327, Issue 1, Pages 169-176Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04685.x
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gravitational lensing; cosmology : theory; dark matter; large-scale structure of Universe
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We present ray tracing simulations combined with sets of large N-body simulations. Experiments were performed to explore, for the first time, the statistical properties of fluctuations in angular separation of nearby light-ray pairs (the so-called lensing excursion angle) induced by weak lensing by large-scale structures. We found that the probability distribution function (PDF) of the lensing excursion angles is not simply Gaussian, but has an exponential tail. It is found, however, that the tail, or more generally the non-Gaussian nature of the PDF has no significant impact on the weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Moreover, we found that the variance in the lensing excursion angles predicted by the power spectrum approach is in good agreement with our numerical results. These results demonstrate the validity of using the power spectrum approach to compute lensing effects on the CMB.
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