Constraining the reionization history with large angle CMB polarization

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2003-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312416v2

JCAP 0403 (2004) 003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to be published in JCAP; replaced with accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2004/03/003

The first-year WMAP data release showed that the reionization optical depth to CMB photons is greater than previously thought. This follows from unexpectedly high values of the C^TE_l spectrum, for l up to ~30, presumably allowing a measurement of the E-mode polarization spectrum C^E_l sooner than expected. This note aims to test the capability of large-angle polarization experiments to explore the history of the cosmological reionization, considering also the impact of cosmic variance. In particular, here we discuss how well the ionized fraction x_e and the reionization redshift z_r can be separately measured, at various levels of instrumental noise.

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