Baryons still trace dark matter: probing CMB lensing maps for hidden isocurvature

Abstract

Compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) are primordial fluctuations that balance baryon and dark-matter isocurvature to leave the total matter density unperturbed. The effects of CIPs on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are similar to those produced by weak lensing of the CMB: smoothing of the power spectrum, and generation of non-Gaussian features. Previous work considered the CIP effects on the CMB power-spectrum but neglected to include the CIP effects on estimates of the lensing potential power spectrum (though its contribution to the non-Gaussian, connected, part of the CMB trispectrum). Here, the CIP contribution to the standard estimator for the lensing potential power-spectrum is derived, and along with the CIP contributions to the CMB power-spectrum, Planck data is used to place limits on the root-mean-square CIP fluctuations on CMB scales, ${\Delta }_{\mathrm{rms}}^2(R_{\mathrm{CMB}})$. The resulting constraint of ${\Delta }_{\mathrm{rms}}^2(R_{\mathrm{CMB}})<4.3\times 10^{-3}$ using this new technique improves on past work by a factor of $\sim 3$. We find that for Planck data our constraints almost reach the sensitivity of the optimal CIP estimator. The method presented here is currently the most sensitive probe of the amplitude of a scale-invariant CIP power spectrum placing an upper limit of $A_{\mathrm{CIP}}<0.017$ at 95% CL. Future measurements of the large-scale CMB lensing potential power spectrum could probe CIP amplitudes as low as ${\Delta }_{\mathrm{rms}}^2(R_{\mathrm{CMB}})=8\times 10^{-5}$ ($A_{\mathrm{CIP}}=3.2\times 10^{-4}$).

24 pages, 9 figures; comments welcome; v2 references corrected

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