Cosmic Birefringence (CB) is the in-vacuo rotation of the linear polarization direction of photons during propagation, caused by parity-violating extensions of Maxwell electromagnetism. We build low resolution CB angle maps using Planck Legacy and NPIPE products and provide for the first time estimates of the cross-correlation spectra CLαE and CLαB between the CB and the CMB polarization fields. We also provide updated CB auto-correlation spectra CLαα as well as the cross-correlation CLαT with the CMB temperature field. We report constraints by defining the scale-invariant amplitudes AαX≡L(L+1)CLαX/2π, where X=α,T,E,B, finding no evidence of CB. In particular, we find AαE=(−7.8±5.6) nK deg and AαB=(0.3±4.0) nK deg at 68% C.L..
@article{arxiv.2206.01635,
title = {Planck constraints on cross-correlations between anisotropic cosmic birefringence and CMB polarization},
author = {Marco Bortolami and Matteo Billi and Alessandro Gruppuso and Paolo Natoli and Luca Pagano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01635},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
24 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in JCAP