Unified approach to secondary effects on the CMB B-mode polarization

Abstract

We develop a systematic and unified approach to estimate all possible secondary (i.e. non-primordial) nonlinear effects to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, named curve-of-sight integration approach. In this approach, the Boltzmann equation for polarized photons is rewritten in a line-of-sight integral along an exact geodesic in the perturbed universe, rather than a geodesic in the background universe used in the linear-order CMB calculation. This approach resolves the difficulty to solve the Boltzmann hierarchy with the nonlinear gravitational effects in the photon free-streaming regime and thus unifies the standard remapping approach for CMB lensing into the direct approach solving the Boltzmann equation for the nonlinear collisional effects. In this paper, we derive formulae that: (i) include all the nonlinear effects; (ii) can treat extended sources such as the contributions after the reionization. It offers a solid framework to discuss possible systematics in the standard estimation of CMB lensing by the remapping approach. As an explicit demonstration, we estimate the secondary B-mode power spectrum induced by all foreground gravitational effects: lensing, redshift, time-delay, emission-angle, and polarization-rotation effects. We define these effects properly so that they do not have any overlap, also without overlooking any effect. Then, we show that these effects only give corrections of the order of 0.001-0.01% to the standard lensing-induced B-mode power spectrum in the concordance $\Lambda$ cold dark matter model. Our result confirms the reliability of using the remapping approach in upcoming CMB experiments aiming to detect the primordial gravitational waves with the tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r\sim 10^{-3}$.

arXiv comment38+13 pages, 13 figures; published version, elaborated discussions on the polarization-rotation effect in section 3.2 and appendix E, the gauge issue in section 3.3

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