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Recent measurements of Galactic polarized dust emission have found a nonzero $TB$ signal, a correlation between the total intensity and the $B$-mode polarization component. We present evidence that this parity-odd signal is driven by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 S. E. Clark , Chang-Goo Kim , J. Colin Hill , Brandon S. Hensley

We present constraints on isotropic cosmic birefringence induced by axion-like particles (ALPs), derived from the analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurements obtained with the high-frequency channels of Planck.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Toshiya Namikawa , Kai Murai , Fumihiro Naokawa

In the context of the standard model of particles, the weak interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), can generate non-vanishing TB and EB power spectra in the order of one loop forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-27 Roohollah Mohammadi , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Mahdi Sadegh , Ali Vahedi , She-sheng Xue

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

Cosmic birefringence is a hypothesized parity violation in electromagnetism that predicts a frequency-independent polarization rotation as light propagates. This would rotate the light from the Cosmic Microwave Background, producing an…

Chiral gravity and cosmological birefringence both provide physical mechanisms to produce parity-violating TB and EB correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature/polarization. Here, we study how well these two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Vera Gluscevic , Marc Kamionkowski

Polarized Galactic synchrotron emission is an undesirable foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments observing at frequencies $< 150$ GHz. We perform a combined analysis of observational data at 1.4, 2.3, 23, 30 and 33 GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Janet L. Weiland , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Mark Halpern , Gary Hinshaw

We present a new publicly available code, $\texttt{class_rot}$, which modifies $\texttt{class}$ to enable fast non-perturbative calculation of cosmic microwave background polarization power spectra due to both isotropic and anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan

We extend the dust-filament-based model presented in Herv\'ias-Caimapo & Huffenberger 2022 to produce parity-violating foreground spectra by manipulating the filament orientations relative to the magnetic field. We calibrate our model to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Ari J. Cukierman , Patricia Diego-Palazuelos , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Susan E. Clark

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

We present a new model of the microwave sky in polarization that can be used to simulate data from CMB polarization experiments. We exploit the most recent results from the Planck satellite to provide an accurate description of the diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

We demonstrate that the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature-polarization cross-correlation provides accurate and robust constraints on cosmological parameters. We compare them with the results from temperature or polarization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 F. Couchot , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

We calculate the effect of gravitational lensing on the parity-odd power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization induced by axionlike particles (ALPs). Several recent works have reported a tantalizing hint of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Fumihiro Naokawa , Toshiya Namikawa

The recent measurement of baryonic acoustic oscillations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument reveals a mild tension with observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) within the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Toshiya Namikawa

When coupled to electromagnetism via a Chern-Simons interaction, axion-like particles (ALP) produce a rotation of the plane of linear polarization of photons known as cosmic birefringence. Recent measurements of cosmic birefringence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 P. Diego-Palazuelos

Cosmological birefringence, a rotation by an angle $\alpha$ of the polarization of photons as they propagate over cosmological distances, is constrained by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be $|\alpha|\lesssim1^\circ$ ($1\sigma$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Marc Kamionkowski

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can probe new parity-violating physics such as cosmic birefringence (CB), which requires exquisite control over instrumental systematics. The non-idealities of the half-wave plate (HWP)…

The origin of small deviations from statistical isotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the so-called CMB anomalies - remains an open question in modern cosmology. In this work, we test statistical isotropy in Planck Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 C. Gimeno-Amo , F. K. Hansen , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro , A. J. Banday

The cosmic microwave background polarization is rich of cosmological information complementary to those from temperature anisotropies. Linear polarization can be decomposed uniquely in two components of opposite parities, called E and B.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Rosset , the PLANCK-HFI Collaboration

We use a custom-made calibrator to measure individual detectors' polarization angles of BICEP3, a small aperture telescope observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95GHz from the South Pole. We describe our calibration strategy…