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Large-scale polarization of the microwave background and foreground

Angélica de Oliveira-Costa1,*, Max Tegmark1, Christopher O’Dell2, Brian Keating3, Peter Timbie4, George Efstathiou5, and George Smoot6

  • 1Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
  • 2Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 4Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1390, USA
  • 5Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 OHA, United Kingdom
  • 6Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

  • *Email address: angelica@higgs.hep.upenn.edu
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Phys. Rev. D 68, 083003 – Published 29 October, 2003

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.083003

Abstract

The DASI discovery of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization has opened a new chapter in cosmology. Most of the useful information about inflationary gravitational waves and reionization is on large angular scales where galactic foreground contamination is the worst, so a key challenge is to model, quantify, and remove polarized foregrounds. We use the POLAR experiment, COBE/DMR and radio surveys to provide the strongest limits to date on the TE cross-power spectrum of the CMB on large angular scales and to quantify the polarized synchrotron radiation, which is likely to be the most challenging polarized contaminant for the WMAP satellite. We find that the synchrotron E and B contributions are equal to within 10% from 408–820 MHz with a hint of E domination at higher frequencies. We quantify Faraday rotation and depolarization effects in the two-dimensional (l,ν) plane and show that they cause the synchrotron polarization percentage to drop both towards lower frequencies and towards lower multipoles.

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Phys. Rev. D 68, 083003– Published 29 October, 2003
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