A Limit on the Polarized Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background at Subdegree Angular Scales

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2000-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010592v1

Astrophys.J. 548 (2001) L111-L114

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/319114

A ground-based polarimeter, PIQUE, operating at 90 GHz has set a new limit on the magnitude of any polarized anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. The combination of the scan strategy and full width half maximum beam of 0.235 degrees gives broad window functions with average multipoles, l = 211+294-146 and l = 212+229-135 for the E- and B-mode window functions, respectively. A joint likelihood analysis yields simultaneous 95% confidence level flat band power limits of 14 and 13 microkelvin on the amplitudes of the E- and B-mode angular power spectra, respectively. Assuming no B-modes, a 95% confidence limit of 10 microkelvin is placed on the amplitude of the E-mode angular power spectrum alone.

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