The gravitational lensing distortion of Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)
carries fruitful information of cosmic large-scale structure. However, CMB observations are
unavoidably contaminated by emission from various extra-galactic foregrounds, which must be
removed to obtain reliable measurements of the cosmological signal. In this paper, we demonstrate
CMB lensing reconstruction in AliCPT-1 after foreground removal, combine the two bands of AliCPT-1
(90 and 150 GHz) with Planck HFI bands (100, 143, 217 and 353 GHz) and with the WMAP-K band
(23 GHz). In order to balance contamination by instrumental noise and foreground residual bias,
we adopt the Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC) method to clean the E-map and the
constrained Internal Linear Combination (cILC) method to clean the B-map. The latter utilizes
additional constraints on average frequency scaling of the dust and synchrotron to remove
foregrounds at the expense of somewhat noisier maps. Assuming 4 modules observing 1 season from
simulation data, the resulting effective residual noise in E- and B-map are roughly 15 μ
K· arcmin and 25 μ K· arcmin, respectively. As a result, the CMB
lensing reconstruction signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from polarization data is about
SNR≈4.5. This lensing reconstruction capability is comparable to that of other
stage-III small aperture millimeter CMB telescopes.
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