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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…

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Cosmological Birefringence (CB) is a phenomenon, caused by parity violating modifications to electrodynamics, whereby the linear polarisation angle of light changes as photons traverse a vacuum. It is possible to use a number of different…

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In observation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, "$EB$~leakage" refers to the artificial $B$-mode signal coming from the leakage of $E$-mode signal when part of the sky is unavailable or excluded. Correction of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hao Liu , James Creswell , Sebastian von Hausegger , Pavel Naselsky

In this perspective, we discuss where and how accounting for electronic many-body polarization affects the accuracy of classical molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules.While the effects of electronic polarization are highly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Josef Melcr , Jean-Philip Piquemal

We measure linearly polarized beam patterns for a multi-moded concentrator and compare the results to a simple model based on geometric optics. We convolve the measured co-polar and cross-polar beams with simulated maps of CMB polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 A. Kogut , D. J. Fixsen

We study the eigenmodes of the spin-2 Laplacian in orientable Euclidean manifolds and their implications for the tensor-induced part of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies. We provide analytic…

We show that simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the multiphase interstellar medium yield an $E/B$ ratio for polarized emission from Galactic dust in broad agreement with recent $Planck$ measurements. In addition, the $B$-mode…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-12 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Raphael Flauger , Sergey D. Ustyugov

An extended analysis of some instrumental polarisation sources has been done, as a consequence of the renewed interest in extremely sensitive polarisation measurements stimulated by Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. The case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Carretti , R. Tascone , S. Cortiglioni , J. Monari , M. Orsini

We quantify the level of polarization of the atmosphere due to Zeeman splitting of oxygen in the Earth's magnetic field and compare it to the level of polarization expected from the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shaul Hanany , Philip Rosenkranz

We discuss the analysis of polarization experiments with particular emphasis on those that measure the Stokes parameters on a ring on the sky. We discuss the ability of these experiments to separate the $E$ and $B$ contributions to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Matias Zaldarriaga

We model the effect of photon and ultra-light pseudoscalar mixing on the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through the extragalactic medium. The medium is modelled as a large number of magnetic domains, uncorrelated with one another.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nishant Agarwal , Pankaj Jain , Douglas W. McKay , John P. Ralston

We study the effects on cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies of spatial fluctuations of the fine-structure parameter between causally disconnected regions of the Universe at the time of recombination.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Kris Sigurdson , Andriy Kurylov , Marc Kamionkowski

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies from primordial magnetic fields are studied. In addition to the known passive and the compensated mode we discuss an inflationary magnetic mode in the curvature perturbation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Camille Bonvin , Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer

Using spin-weighted decomposition of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) we show that a particular combination of Stokes $Q$ and $U$ parameters vanishes for primordial fluctuations generated by scalar modes, but does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

The polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background radiation can be rotated either in a magnetized plasma or in the presence of a quintessential background with pseudoscalar coupling to electromagnetism. A unified treatment of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

We estimate the depolarizing effect of a primordial magnetic field upon the cosmic microwave background radiation due to differential Faraday rotation across the last scattering surface. The degree of linear polarization of the CMB is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Diego Harari , Justin Hayward , Matias Zaldarriaga

A new spin wavelet transform on the sphere is proposed to analyse the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a spin $\pm 2$ signal observed on the celestial sphere. The scalar directional scale-discretised wavelet transform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 Jason D. McEwen , Martin Büttner , Boris Leistedt , Hiranya V. Peiris , Pierre Vandergheynst , Yves Wiaux

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

Breakdown of rotational invariance of the primordial power spectrum manifests in the statistical anisotropy of the observed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Hemispherical power asymmetry in the CMB may be caused due to a dipolar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Md Ishaque Khan , Rajib Saha

Cosmological magnetic fields induce temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. A cosmological magnetic field with current amplitude of order $10^{-9}$ G is detectable via observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tina Kahniashvili , Bharat Ratra , ;