Testing CMB Anomalies in E-mode Polarization with Current and Future Data

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Rui Shi Tobias A. Marriage John W. Appel Charles L. Bennett David T. Chuss Joseph Cleary Joseph Eimer Sumit Dahal Rahul Datta Francisco Espinoza Yunyang Li Nathan J. Miller Carolina Núñez Ivan L. Padilla Matthew A. Petroff Deniz A. N. Valle Edward J. Wollack Zhilei Xu

摘要： In this paper, we explore the power of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization (E-mode) data to corroborate four potential anomalies in CMB temperature data: the lack of large angular-scale correlations, the alignment of the quadrupole and octupole (Q-O), the point-parity asymmetry, and the hemispherical power asymmetry. We use CMB simulations with noise representative of three experiments -- the Planck satellite, the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), and the LiteBIRD satellite -- to test how current and future data constrain the anomalies. We find the correlation coefficients $\rho$ between temperature and E-mode estimators to be less than $0.1$, except for the point-parity asymmetry ($\rho=0.17$ for cosmic-variance-limited simulations), confirming that E-modes provide a check on the anomalies that is largely independent of temperature data. Compared to Planck component-separated CMB data (SMICA), the putative LiteBIRD survey would reduce errors on E-mode anomaly estimators by factors of $\sim 3$ for hemispherical power asymmetry and point-parity asymmetry, and by $\sim 26$ for lack of large-scale correlation. The improvement in Q-O alignment is not obvious due to large cosmic variance, but we found the ability to pin down the estimator value will be improved by a factor $\gtrsim100$. Improvements with CLASS are intermediate to these.

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