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Cosmology with Planck T-E correlation coefficient

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-07-28 v1

Abstract

Tensions in cosmological parameters measurement motivate a revisit of the effects of instrumental systematics. In this article, we focus on the Pearson's correlation coefficient of the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization E modes RTE\mathcal{R}_\ell^{\rm TE} which has the property of not being biased by multiplicative instrumental systematics. We build a RTE\mathcal{R}_\ell^{\rm TE}-based likelihood for the Planck data, and present the first constraints on Λ\LambdaCDM parameters from the correlation coefficient. Our results are compatible with parameters derived from a power spectra based likelihood. In particular the value of the Hubble parameter H0H_0 characterizing the expansion of the Universe today, 67.5 ±\pm 1.3 km/s/Mpc, is consistent with the ones inferred from standard CMB analysis. We also discuss the consistency of the Planck correlation coefficient with the one computed from the most recent ACTPol power spectra.

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@article{arxiv.2105.06167,
  title  = {Cosmology with Planck T-E correlation coefficient},
  author = {Adrien La Posta and Thibaut Louis and Xavier Garrido and Matthieu Tristram and Sophie Henrot-Versillé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.06167},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures

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