Polarization and Anisotropy of the Microwave Sky
Abstract
We study the polarization-polarization and polarization-temperature correlations in standard adiabatic scenarios for structure formation. Temperature anisotropies due to gravitational potential wells and oscillations in the photon-baryon-electron fluid on the surface of last scattering are each associated with a correlated polarization pattern. While the `correlated part' of the polarization has an r.m.s. of only a third of the total signal, it may still be measurable by mapping a large area on the sky. We calculate the expected signal to noise ratio for various measures of the polarization in a hypothetical mapping experiment such as those now being planned.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9406046,
title = {Polarization and Anisotropy of the Microwave Sky},
author = {David Coulson and Robert G. Crittenden and Neil Turok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9406046},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages of uuencoded compressed postscript (replacing previous uncompressed version), figures included. PUPT-94-1473