A Measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG

Abstract

We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the January 2003 Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from six days of observation of a patch covering 0.22% of the sky centered near R.A. = 82.5 deg., Dec= -45 deg. The observations were made using four pairs of polarization sensitive bolometers operating in bands centered at 145 GHz. Using two independent analysis pipelines, we measure a non-zero <EE> signal in the range 100< l <1000 with a significance 4.8-sigma, a 2-sigma upper limit of 8.6 uK^2 for any <BB> contribution, and a 2-sigma upper limit of 7.0 uK^2 for the <EB> spectrum. Estimates of foreground intensity fluctuations and the non-detection of <BB> and <EB> signals rule out any significant contribution from galactic foregrounds. The results are consistent with a Lambda-CDM cosmology seeded by adiabatic perturbations. We note that this is the first detection of CMB polarization with bolometric detectors.

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