The Signature of Patchy Reionization in the Polarization Anisotropy of the CMB

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dc.creatorDoré, Olivier
dc.creatorHolder, Gil
dc.creatorAlvarez, Marcelo
dc.creatorIliev, Ilian T.
dc.creatorMellema, Garrelt
dc.creatorPen, Ue-Li
dc.creatorShapiro, Paul R.
dc.date2007-01-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:00:45Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:00:45Z
dc.descriptionThe inhomogeneous ionization state of the universe when the first sources of ionizing radiation appeared should lead to anisotropies in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. We use cosmological simulations of the process by which the first sources ionized the intergalactic medium to study the induced polarization anisotropies. We find that the polarization anisotropies have rms of order ~0.01 μK, and local peak values of ~0.1 μK, smaller than those due to gravitational lensing on small scales. The polarization direction is highly coherent over degree scales. This directional coherence is not expected from either primary anisotropy or gravitational lensing effects, making the largest signals due to inhomogeneous ionization relatively easy to isolate, should experiments achieve the necessary very low noise levels.
dc.description11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRD
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701784
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701784
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D76:043002,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043002
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/187759
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Signature of Patchy Reionization in the Polarization Anisotropy of the CMB
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