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We present the first reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential from the SPT-3G Summer survey using two years of temperature data. The Summer survey has a total area of approximately 2640 deg², split into three fields covering 1210, 570, and 860 deg², respectively. A joint analysis of the three Summer fields yields a lensing amplitude of Aᶜᵒᵐᵇ = 1.015 ± 0.053 relative to a fiducial Planck 2018 $Λ$CDM cosmology for the multipole range $50 < L < 2000$. These early results from the SPT-3G Summer survey highlight the potential for increasing the signal-to-noise ratio when combining the Summer fields with the SPT-3G Main and Wide fields for a total SPT-3G survey area of ~ 10,000 deg².
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Levy et al. (2026) studied this question.