Directionality in the WMAP Polarization Data

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2007-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702277v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, modified to match version accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

Polarization is the next frontier of CMB analysis, but its signal is dominated over much of the sky by foregrounds which must be carefully removed. To determine the efficacy of this cleaning it is necessary to have sensitive tests for residual foreground contamination in polarization sky maps. The dominant Galactic foregrounds introduce a large-scale anisotropy on to the sky, so it makes sense to use a statistic sensitive to overall directionality for this purpose. Here we adapt the rapidly computable D statistic of Bunn and Scott to polarization data, and demonstrate its utility as a foreground monitor by applying it to the low resolution WMAP 3-yr sky maps. With a thorough simulation of the maps' noise properties, we find no evidence for contamination in the foreground cleaned sky maps.

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