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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…

Polarimetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents one of the possible diagnostics aimed at testing large-scale magnetism at the epoch of the photon decoupling. The propagation of electromagnetic disturbances in a magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

The upcoming Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes aim at achieving a constraint on the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ at the level of $\sigma(r=0)\lesssim0.003$, observing the polarized CMB in the presence of partial sky…

We consider the effectiveness of foreground cleaning in the recovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization sourced by gravitational waves for tensor-to-scalar ratios in the range $0<r<0.1$. Using the planned survey area,…

Observations of the polarization of the cosmic microwave backround (CMB) have the potential to place much tighter constraints on cosmological parameters than observations of the fluctuations in temperature alone. We discuss using CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William H. Kinney

The cosmic infrared background (CIB) is slightly polarized. Polarization directions of individual galaxies could be aligned with tidal fields around galaxies, resulting in nonzero CIB polarization. We use a linear intrinsic alignment model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

Current and future B-mode polarization data are the most powerful observables to constrain gravitational waves from the early Universe. We set conservative constraints on tensor modes when relaxing the inflationary consistency condition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , Jussi Valiviita , Masashi Hazumi

Possible signatures of primordial magnetic fields on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies are reviewed. The signals that could be searched for include excess temperature anisotropies particularly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kandaswamy Subramanian

The anisotropy study cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the main observational tools for modern cosmology. However, alongside the study of the thermal fluctuations of the CMB are other equally important information, which is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-18 Alexander Bonilla Rivera

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

A preferred method to detect the curl-component, or B-mode, signature of inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs) in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, in the absence of foregrounds and lensing, is a prolonged integration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation offers a unique window into the early Universe, facilitating precise examinations of fundamental cosmological theories. However, the quest for detecting B-modes in the CMB, predicted by…

We present a Gaussianity test of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization by analyzing the statistics of unpolarized points in the sky, classified into three distinct types: saddles, comets, and beaks. This classification of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 K. O. Parfenov , D. I. Novikov , A. O. Mihalchenko

This is a very exciting time for the CMB field. It is widely recognized that precision measurements of the CMB can provide a definitive test of cosmological models and determine their parameters accurately. At present observations give us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George F. Smoot

Recovering the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) is essential for shedding light on the exponential expansion of the very early Universe, known as cosmic inflation. Achieving this goal requires not only improved instrumental…

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The B-mode polarisation power spectrum in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is about four orders of magnitude fainter than the CMB temperature power spectrum. Any instrumental imperfections that couple temperature fluctuations to B-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Christopher G. R. Wallis , Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye , Jacques Delabrouille

We investigate the E/B decomposition of CMB polarization on a masked sky. In real space, operators of E and B mode decomposition involve only differentials of CMB polarization. We may, therefore in principle, perform a clean E/B…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Jaiseung Kim

On the basis of the quantum Boltzmann equation governing the time-evolution of the density matrix of polarized CMB photons in the primordial scalar perturbations of metric, we calculate the B-mode spectrum of polarized CMB photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Rohoollah Mohammadi , She-Sheng Xue

The search for the B-mode polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the new frontier of observational Cosmology. A B-mode detection would give an ultimate confirmation to the existence of a primordial Gravitational Wave (GW)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Alessandro Buzzelli , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi , Nicola Vittorio