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Planck constraints on cross-correlations between anisotropic cosmic birefringence and CMB polarization

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-09-30 v2

Abstract

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 CLαEC_L^{\alpha E} and CLαBC_L^{\alpha B} between the CB and the CMB polarization fields. We also provide updated CB auto-correlation spectra CLααC_L^{\alpha\alpha} as well as the cross-correlation CLαTC_L^{\alpha T} with the CMB temperature field. We report constraints by defining the scale-invariant amplitudes AαXL(L+1)CLαX/2πA^{\alpha X} \equiv L(L + 1)C_L^{\alpha X}/2\pi, where X=α,T,E,BX = \alpha, T, E, B, finding no evidence of CB. In particular, we find AαE=(7.8±5.6)A^{\alpha E} = (-7.8 \pm 5.6) nK deg and AαB=(0.3±4.0)A^{\alpha B} = (0.3 \pm 4.0) nK deg at 68% C.L..

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@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