Polarization and Anisotropy of the Microwave Sky

Abstract

We study the polarization-polarization and polarization-temperature correlations in standard adiabatic scenarios for structure formation. Temperature anisotropies due to gravitational potential wells and oscillations in the photon-baryon-electron fluid on the surface of last scattering are each associated with a correlated polarization pattern. While the `correlated part' of the polarization has an r.m.s. of only a third of the total signal, it may still be measurable by mapping a large area on the sky. We calculate the expected signal to noise ratio for various measures of the polarization in a hypothetical mapping experiment such as those now being planned.

12 pages of uuencoded compressed postscript (replacing previous uncompressed version), figures included. PUPT-94-1473

References in corpus (3)

• Polarization of the Microwave Background due to Primordial Gravitational Waves
• Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments
• $\Pi$ in the Sky ? Microwave Anisotropies from Cosmic Defects

Cited by in corpus (49)

• Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
• Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
• Three Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Polarization Analysis
• An All-Sky Analysis of Polarization in the Microwave Background
• Statistics of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) First Year Observations: TE Polarization
• Reconstructing the Inflaton Potential --- an Overview
• A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity
• Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background using DASI
• Planck 2013 results. XXIII. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
• Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB
• Cosmological-Parameter Determination with Microwave Background Maps
• Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
• The Magnetized Universe
• First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Interpretation of the TT and TE Angular Power Spectrum Peaks
• Measuring Polarization In Cosmic Microwave Background
• The Effect of Physical Assumptions on the Calculation of Microwave Background Anisotropies
• Cosmic Structure Formation with Topological Defects
• Causality and CPT violation from an Abelian Chern-Simons-like term
• Analytic approach to the polarization of the cosmic microwave background in flat and open universes
• Axion Dark Matter Detection with CMB Polarization
• A measurement of the polarization-temperature angular cross power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG
• CMB polarization as a direct test of Inflation
• Non-Gaussian Signatures in the Cosmic Background Radiation from Warm Inflation
• Polarization of the Microwave Background in Defect Models
• A CPT anomaly
• Large Angular Scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Feasibility of its Detection
• Simple foreground cleaning algorithm for detecting primordial B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background
• Depolarization of the cosmic microwave background by a primordial magnetic field and its effect upon temperature anisotropy
• Correlation Functions of CMB Anisotropy and Polarization
• The correlation of peaks in the microwave background
• Depolarization remote sensing by orthogonality breaking
• Cluster Masses from CMB and Galaxy Weak Lensing
• On quantifying and resolving the BICEP2/Planck tension over gravitational waves
• General Statistical properties of the CMB Polarization field
• Tensor Minkowski Functionals: first application to the CMB
• On Minkowski Functionals of CMB polarization
• Full-sky correlations of peaks in the microwave background
• Primordial non-Gaussian signatures in CMB polarization
• Relic Gravitational Waves And CMB Polarization In The Accelerating Universe
• The effects on CMB power spectra and bispectra from the polarization rotation and its correlations with temperature and E-polarization
• The shape of CMB temperature and polarization peaks on the sphere
• WMAP Polarization Results
• Statistics of the excursion sets in models with local primordial non-Gaussianity
• The Superhorizon Test of Future B-mode Experiments
• Gravitational Wave Detection Using Redshifted 21-cm Observations
• Polarization of the Microwave Background: theoretical framework
• Differential description and irreversibility of depolarizing light-matter interactions
• Tensor-Induced CMB Temperature-Polarization Correlation in Reionized Universes