Statistical Isotropy violation of CMB polarization sky due to Lorentz boost
Abstract
In the frame of a moving observer, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuation exhibits violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI). The SI violation effect from our local motion on CMB temperature fluctuation has been measured in the recent Planck results. We calculate the effect of our local motion with velocity on CMB polarization field. The Lorentz transformation of the polarization field leads to aberration in the direction of incoming photons and also modulation of the Stokes parameters, which results in mixing of power between different CMB multipoles. We show that for small values of , the effect on the angular power spectra that corresponds to the diagonal terms in the spherical harmonic space is at . But non-zero off-diagonal terms at the linear order in could provide a measurable signature of SI violation in the Bipolar Spherical Harmonic (BipoSH) representation. We also calculate the measurability of from polarization maps from experiments like Planck and PRISM. It is possible to measure from the ideal, cosmic variance limited BipoSH spectra of , , , but not in and . With the instrumental noise of and angular resolution of Planck, it is not possible to measure with high statistical significance from BipoSH spectra of polarization. PRISM can measure with high significance in both and BipoSH spectra, but not in , and BipoSH spectra.
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@article{arxiv.1309.3800,
title = {Statistical Isotropy violation of CMB polarization sky due to Lorentz boost},
author = {Suvodip Mukherjee and Aritra De and Tarun Souradeep},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3800},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
26 pages, 4 figures. Matches the published version