Large-scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Details Large-scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Large-scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

1993-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9305001v2

Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 364-368

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, LaTeX style, IP-ASTP-08-93, 2 revised figures available upon request

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.51.364

The anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) induced by the scalar and tensor metric perturbations are computed in the long-wavelength limit. It is found that the large-scale polarization of CMBR induced by the decaying tensor mode can reach a few percents. This is different from the scalar or inflation-induced tensor mode, whereas the polarization is at least two orders of magnitude lower. The effect of matter re-ionization on CMBR is also considered. We conclude that measuring the polarization of CMBR on large-angular scales can probe the ionization history of the early Universe, and test different cosmological models.

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