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The angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy observed by WMAP has an anomalous dip at l~20 and bump at l~40. One explanation for this structure is the presence of features in the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-19 Michael J. Mortonson , Cora Dvorkin , Hiranya V. Peiris , Wayne Hu

The Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature data are best fit with a LCDM model that is in mild tension with constraints from other cosmological probes. The South Pole Telescope (SPT) 2540 $\text{deg}^2$ SPT-SZ survey offers…

We develop a method to constrain non-isotropic features of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization, of a type expected to arise in some models describing quantum gravity effects on light propagation. We describe the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Giulia Gubitosi , Marina Migliaccio , Luca Pagano , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Alessandro Melchiorri , Paolo Natoli , Gianluca Polenta

The Planck experiment will soon provide a very accurate measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. This will let cosmologists determine most of the cosmological parameters with unprecedented accuracy. Future experiments will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-24 Silvia Galli , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano , Blake D. Sherwin , David N. Spergel

We introduce a pixel space method to detect dipole modulation or hemispherical power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The method relies on the use of squared total polarized flux whose ensemble average picks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Shamik Ghosh , Pankaj Jain

In this paper, we explore the power of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization (E-mode) data to corroborate four potential anomalies in CMB temperature data: the lack of large angular-scale correlations, the alignment of the…

The Planck satellite experiment, which was launched the 14th of may 2009, will give an accurate measurement of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. This measurement is polluted by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-20 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez

The rotation of the linear polarisation plane of photons during propagation, also known as cosmic birefringence, is a powerful probe of parity-violating extensions of standard electromagnetism. Using Planck legacy data, we confirm previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 M. Ballardini , A. Gruppuso , S. Paradiso , S. S. Sirletti , P. Natoli

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

We constrain parity-violating interactions to the surface of last scattering using spectra from the QUaD experiment's second and third seasons of observations by searching for a possible systematic rotation of the polarization directions of…

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Brian Keating , Meir Shimon , Amit Yadav

Parity violating extensions of the standard electromagnetic theory cause in vacuo rotation of the plane of polarization of propagating photons. This effect, also known as cosmic birefringence, impacts the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , B. Comis , D. Contreras , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Désert , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , Y. Fantaye , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , Y. Giraud-Héraud , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , J. -M. Lamarre , M. Langer , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , J. P. Leahy , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , G. Morgante , A. Moss , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , L. Patrizii , L. Perotto , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , J. P. Rachen , B. Racine , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. D. Spencer , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , F. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Effective pseudoscalar-photon interaction(s) would induce a rotation of linear polarization of electromagnetic wave propagating with cosmological distance in various cosmological models. Pseudoscalar-photon interaction is proportional to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-23 Wei-Tou Ni

Recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-mode polarization power spectrum by the BICEP2 and POLARBEAR experiments have demonstrated new precision tools for probing fundamental physics. Regardless of origin, the fact that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jonathan Kaufman , Brian Keating , Brad Johnson

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 Suvodip Mukherjee , Aritra De , Tarun Souradeep

We study the global agreement between the most recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropies angular power spectra released by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Planck satellite in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-02 Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

We test the statistical isotropy (SI) of the $E$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed by the Planck satellite using two statistics, namely, the contour Minkowski Tensor (CMT) and the Directional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Joby P. Kochappan , Aparajita Sen , Tuhin Ghosh , Pravabati Chingangbam , Soumen Basak

We use a complete and rigorous statistical indicator to measure the level of concordance between cosmological data sets, without relying on the inspection of the marginal posterior distribution of some selected parameters. We apply this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Marco Raveri

We show that the cosmic birefringence and miscalibrated polarisation angles can be determined simultaneously by cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments using the cross-correlation between $E$- and $B$-mode polarisation data. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-30 Yuto Minami , Hiroki Ochi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Nobuhiko Katayama , Eiichiro Komatsu , Tomotake Matsumura