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Statistical Isotropy violation of CMB polarization sky due to Lorentz boost

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-04-27 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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 (βv/c=1.23×103)(\beta \equiv |\boldsymbol v|/c= 1.23 \times 10^{-3}) 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 β\beta, the effect on the angular power spectra that corresponds to the diagonal terms in the spherical harmonic space is at O(β2)O(\beta^2). But non-zero off-diagonal terms at the linear order in β\beta could provide a measurable signature of SI violation in the Bipolar Spherical Harmonic (BipoSH) representation. We also calculate the measurability of β\beta from polarization maps from experiments like Planck and PRISM. It is possible to measure β\beta from the ideal, cosmic variance limited BipoSH spectra of EEEE, TETE, BBBB, but not in EBEB and TBTB. With the instrumental noise of and angular resolution of Planck, it is not possible to measure β\beta with high statistical significance from BipoSH spectra of polarization. PRISM can measure β\beta with high significance in both EEEE and TETE BipoSH spectra, but not in BBBB, EBEB and TBTB 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}
}

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26 pages, 4 figures. Matches the published version