Application of Contour Minkowski Tensor and $\mathcal{D}$ Statistic to the Planck $E$-mode data

Joby P. Kochappan, Aparajita Sen, Tuhin Ghosh +2

We test the statistical isotropy (SI) of the $E$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation observed by the Planck satellite using two statistics, namely,…