Predictions of Cosmic Microwave Background Foregrounds Dust Polarization Using Velocity Gradients
arXiv:1910.05637 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab60a5
Abstract
The observations of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background provide information about primordial inhomogeneities in the universe. However, the B-mode polarization of the inflationary gravitational wave is contaminated by the Galactic foreground polarized radiation arising from dust aligned by interstellar magnetic fields. To trace magnetic fields we use the Velocity Gradient Technique, which employs a modern understanding of the nature of magneto-hydrodynamics turbulent motions. In this paper, we combine the VGT with the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to improve the accuracy of magnetic field tracing. We apply the VGT-PCA to the high-resolution neutral hydrogen data from the GALFA-HI survey to predict the polarization of dust. We report that the predicted directions of dust polarization provide good correspondence with those reported by Planck 353GHz, the alignment measure between the two AM=0.79. We show that our results statistically agree with the Planck polarization in terms of magnetic field tracing. We find that the variation of dust emission efficiency across the sky is small. Using our maps of predicted polarization we calculate the ratio of the E and B modes and show that BB/EE=0.53, which is similar to the result from Plank polarization.
arXiv comment22 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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