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[Abridged] Recent results from the BICEP, Keck Array and Planck Collaborations demonstrate that Galactic foregrounds are an unavoidable obstacle in the search for evidence of inflationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Josquin Errard , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew H. Jaffe

A detection of excess cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization on large scales allows the possibility of measuring not only the amplitude of these fluctuations but also their scale dependence, which can be parametrized as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gabrielle Simard , Duncan Hanson , Gil Holder

The standard cosmological model, which assumes statistical isotropy and parity invariance, predicts the absence of correlations between even-parity and odd-parity observables of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Contrary to these…

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 polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

We search for the signature of parity-violating physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background using Planck polarization data from the Public Release 4 (PR4 or $\mathtt{NPIPE}$). For nearly full-sky data, we initially find a birefringence angle…

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

The BICEP/$\textit{Keck}$ (BK) series of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments has, over the past decade and a half, produced a series of field-leading constraints on cosmic inflation via measurements of the "B-mode"…

Cosmology requires new physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles and fields. What is the fundamental physics behind dark matter and dark energy? What generated the initial fluctuations in the early Universe? Polarised light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Eiichiro Komatsu

The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detecting the elusive signal from primordial tensor fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Susanna Azzoni , David Alonso , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Josquin Errard , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and dark energy equation of state.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan , Toshiya Namikawa , Arthur Kosowsky

One of the main problems for extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from submm/mm observations is to correct for the Galactic components, mainly synchrotron, free - free and thermal dust emission with the required accuracy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

Cosmological CPT violation will rotate the polarized direction of CMB photons, convert partial CMB E mode into B mode and vice versa. It will generate non-zero EB, TB spectra and change the EE, BB, TE spectra. This phenomenon gives us a way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hua Zhai , Si-Yu Li , Mingzhe Li , Xinmin Zhang

The primary scientific target of the CMB polarization experiments that are currently being built and proposed is the detection of primordial tensor perturbations. As a byproduct, these instruments will significantly improve constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Levon Pogosian , Meir Shimon , Matthew Mewes , Brian Keating

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…

When a cosmic microwave background (CMB) photon travels from the surface of last scatter through spacetime metric perturbations, the polarization vector may rotate about its direction of propagation. This gravitational rotation is distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-31 Liang Dai

We study the reconstruction of the cosmic rotation power spectrum produced by parity-violating physics, with an eye to ongoing and near future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments such as BICEP Array, CMBS4, LiteBIRD and Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Toshiya Namikawa

The curl (B) modes of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies are a unique probe of the primordial background of inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs). Unfortunately, the B-mode polarization anisotropies generated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Sigurdson , Asantha Cooray

Various effects produced by vector perturbations (vortical peculiar velocity fields) of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background are considered. In the presence of this type of perturbations, the polarization vector rotates. A formula…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Juan Antonio Morales , Diego Sáez