WMAP polarization observations: seeing through the Galaxy

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• Jo Dunkley (Oxford)
• Monday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:00
• Potter Room, CMS, Pav.B, First Floor Common Room (B1.19).

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Current polarization measurements from WMAP provide information about the reionization epoch. However, WMAP observes significant levels of polarized radiation from our Galaxy. I will present a sampling method for estimating the polarized CMB maps, marginalizing over Galactic contributions. I will show the application of this method to the five year WMAP data, where we find that the large scale polarized CMB signal is consistent with the standard ‘template-cleaned’ result. The synchrotron emission is found to have mean index ~ -3.0 in regions of high signal to noise. The large scale polarized CMB is also used to search for a background of gravitational waves from inflation in the early universe, so I’ll discuss the application to future estimation of this primordial signal.

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