Sep 09, 2021 - Effects of lensing with smooth kappa

We used the full lensing code (deflections, magnifications) to see how variance/skewness/curtosis in ell bins changes due to lensing. We perform a map level cut.

We show results for three flux threshold values (colors) with smoothed kappa (1 pixel, solid) and without smoothed kappa (dashed)

As expected, smoothing kappa decreases the effect of non-Gaussianities.

We also check stability when the hot pixels are replaced with twice the mean of the map (as opposed to map mean above), changes are not huge and mostly invisible in many of the plots.