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The detection of B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology and physics. It is…

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We present a new method for delensing $B$ modes of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a lensing potential reconstructed from the same realization of the CMB polarization (CMB internal delensing). The $B$-mode delensing is required…

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We consider a novel contribution to the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background induced by vector and tensor modes generated by the non-linear evolution of primordial scalar perturbations. Our calculation is based on relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Silvia Mollerach , Diego Harari , Sabino Matarrese

If the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is rotated in a frequency-independent manner as it propagates from the surface of last scatter, it may introduce a B-mode polarization. Here I show that measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-08 Marc Kamionkowski

It has been shown that a three-point correlation function of tensor perturbations from a bounce model in general relativity with a minimally-coupled scalar field is highly suppressed, and the resultant three-point function of cosmic…

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Primordial statistical anisotropy is a key indicator to investigate early Universe models and has been probed by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In this paper, we examine tensor-mode CMB fluctuations generated from…

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Tangled, primordial cosmic magnetic fields create small rotational velocity perturbations on the last scattering surface (LSS) of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). Such perturbations can contribute significantly to the CMBR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kandaswamy Subramanian , T. R. Seshadri , John. D. Barrow

Standard models describing the radiation transfer of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) through Compton scattering predict that cosmological scalar perturbations at linear order are not able to source V and B polarization modes. In this…

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Since the measurements of COBE/FIRAS in the mid-90's we know that the energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is extremely close to that of a perfect blackbody at an average temperature T0~2.726K. However, a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-11 Jens Chluba

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a plethora of information about the early universe. Most notably, gravitational waves from the Inflationary epoch (the leading explanation of the origin of the universe)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-02 Jonathan Kaufman , Brian Keating , David Leon

The B-Mode of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP) promises to detect the gravitational wave background left by Inflation and explore this very early period of the Universe. In spite of its importance, however, the cosmic…

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We investigate a possibility of constraining statistical anisotropies of the primordial tensor perturbations by using future observations for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarization. By parameterizing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Takashi Hiramatsu , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata

A tremendous international effort is currently dedicated to observing the so-called primordial B modes of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation. If measured, this faint signal imprinted by the primordial gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 J. Aumont , A. Ritacco , J. F. Macías-Pérez , N. Ponthieu , A. Mangilli

Given observations of B-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), we can reconstruct power spectra of primordial tensor modes from the early Universe without assuming their functional form such as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Takashi Hiramatsu , Eiichiro Komatsu , Masashi Hazumi , Misao Sasaki

The CMB's B-mode polarization provides a handle on several cosmological parameters most notably the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, and is sensitive to parameters which govern the growth of large scale structure (LSS) and evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 N. J. Miller , M. Shimon , B. G. Keating

One of the main goals of Cosmology is to search for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB polarisation field, to probe inflationary theories. One of the obstacles toward the detection of the primordial signal is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Lagache , M. Bethermin , L. Montier , P. Serra , M. Tucci

Detecting primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a direct probe of inflationary gravitational waves. However, the signal is extremely faint and contaminated by gravitational lensing, instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Anumanchi Agastya Sai Ram Likhit , Rajib Saha

Contamination by polarized foregrounds is one of the biggest challenges for future polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys and the potential detection of primordial $B$-modes. Future experiments, such as Simons Observatory (SO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown , Kevin M. Huffenberger

Measuring the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation field is one of the main goals in modern cosmology. However, the so called $B$-mode polarisation can be generated by different…

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