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Cosmic birefringence (CB) is the rotation of the photons' linear polarisation plane during propagation. Such an effect is a tracer of parity-violating extensions of standard electromagnetism and would probe the existence of a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 E. de la Hoz , P. Diego-Palazuelos , J. Errard , A. Gruppuso , B. Jost , R. M. Sullivan , M. Bortolami , Y. Chinone , L. T. Hergt , E. Komatsu , Y. Minami , I. Obata , D. Paoletti , D. Scott , P. Vielva , D. Adak , R. Akizawa , A. Anand , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , A. Basyrov , M. Bersanelli , T. Brinckmann , F. Cacciotti , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , M. De Lucia , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , E. Ferreira , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , E. Hivon , H. Ishino , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , S. Micheli , M. Migliaccio , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , A. Occhiuzzi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , G. Pascual-Cisneros , V. Pavlidou , V. Pelgrims , F. Piacentini , G. Piccirilli , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Ruiz-Granda , Y. Sakurai , J. Sanghavi , M. Shiraishi , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , D. Watts , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , B. Winter , E. J. Wollack , Y. Zhou

Simulation-based inference (SBI) is a powerful inference technique for cases where the exact functional form of the likelihood is not known. A prime example is the likelihood of cross-correlation power spectra of the cosmic microwave…

We study the kinetic mixing between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photon and the birefringent dark photon. These birefringent dark photon may exist in parity-violating dark sector, for example, through the coupling to axion field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-30 Sung Mook Lee , Dong Woo Kang , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Donghui Jeong , Dong-Won Jung , Seong Chan Park

If the dark sector of the Universe consists of ultra-light scalars, their coupling to photon via a Chern-Simons term would induce a rotation of the polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This rotation would convert E…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Seokcheon Lee , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

Recent measurements of the temperature field of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide tantalising evidence for violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI) that constitutes a fundamental tenet of contemporary cosmology. CMB space based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Suvodip Mukherjee , Tarun Souradeep

We study the imprint of a coupling of scalar dark energy to photon on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The time-evolving field value as well as the perturbation of the scalar generically induce $B$-mode polarization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Seokcheon Lee , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

We predict the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons that results from a cosmic bubble collision. The polarization is purely E-mode, symmetric around the axis pointing towards the collision bubble, and has several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bartlomiej Czech , Matthew Kleban , Klaus Larjo , Thomas S. Levi , Kris Sigurdson

One of the most intriguing hints of a departure from the standard cosmological model is a large-scale dipolar power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). If not a statistical fluke, its origins must lie in the modulation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 J. P. Zibin , D. Contreras

We introduce birefringence effects within the propagation history of CMB, considering the two cases of a constant effect and of an effect that increases linearly in time, as the rotation of polarization induced by birefringence accumulates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Giulia Gubitosi , Matteo Martinelli , Luca Pagano

It was known that isocurvature perturbation of a nearly massless cosmological axion field can lead to rotation of $E$-mode polarization into $B$-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the presence of a parity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

Cosmic birefringence, arising from a potential parity-violating interaction between cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and evolving pseudo-scalar fields such as axion-like particles, can rotate the CMB polarization plane and induce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mathieu Remazeilles

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

We investigate the weak lensing corrections to the CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies. We consider all the effects beyond the leading order: post-Born corrections, LSS corrections and, for the polarization anisotropies, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Giovanni Marozzi , Giuseppe Fanizza , Enea Di Dio , Ruth Durrer

In this paper, we review the approach leading to cosmic polarization rotation observation and present the current status with an outlook. In the study of the relations among equivalence principles, we found that long-range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Wei-Tou Ni

A Chern-Simons coupling of a new scalar field to electromagnetism may give rise to cosmological birefringence, a rotation of the linear polarization of electromagnetic waves as they propagate over cosmological distances. Prior work has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Vera Gluscevic , Duncan Hanson , Marc Kamionkowski , Christopher M. Hirata

The recently detected polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) holds the potential for revealing the physics of inflation and gravitationally mapping the large-scale structure of the universe, if so called B-mode signals below…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Wayne Hu , Matthew M. Hedman , Matias Zaldarriaga

We use the ACTpol published cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data to constrain cosmological birefringence, a tracer of parity violation beyond the standard model of particle physics. To this purpose, we employ all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-14 Diego Molinari , Alessandro Gruppuso , Paolo Natoli

We study a possibility of constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence with help of cosmic microwave background polarisation data in the presence of polarisation angle miscalibration without relying on any assumptions about the Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Baptiste Jost , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

We discuss the polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves imprinted in cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. The high-energy physics motivated by superstring theory or M-theory generically yield parity violating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Shun Saito , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Atsushi Taruya

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicola Bartolo , Ahmad Hoseinpour , Sabino Matarrese , Giorgio Orlando , Moslem Zarei