The Gravitational Lensing Effect on the CMB Polarisation Anisotropy in the Λ-LTB Model

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2011-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/1101.0476v2

Prog. Theor. Phys. 125 (2011), 815-836

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

22 pages in the PTPTeX style, 2 figures, 1 table; revised argument in Section 4.4 and added Section 5.4 in response to referee

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTP.125.815

A local void modifies the sky distribution pattern of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation by gravitational lensing and produces B-modes from E-modes for an off-center observer. In order to see whether this effect can be used to observationally test the validity of the local void model, we calculate this lensing effect by solving the propagation of CMB polarisation along null geodesics close to the central light cone in the general Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) model perturbatively. In particular, we give general formulas for the correlations of E and B observed by an off-center observer and show that E_l^m and B_l^m are correlated for the same value of l, i.e., is proportional to {\delta}_{l, l'}, while is proportional to {\delta}_{|l'-l|, 1}. This feature can be used to distinguish the gravitational lensing effect by a local void from those by normal shear field of galaxies.

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