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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 435, Issue 1, Pages 18-29Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1158
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methods: data analysis; cosmic background radiation
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- 'Physique des deux infinis' (P2I) postdoctoral fellowship
- NASA Office of Space Science
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We estimate cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization power spectra and temperature-polarization cross-spectra, from the 9-year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Foreground cleaning is implemented using minimum variance linear combinations of the coefficients of needlet decompositions of sky maps for all WMAP channels, to produce maps for CMB temperature anisotropies (T-mode) and polarization (E and B-modes), for nine different years of observation. The final power spectra are computed from averages of all possible cross-year power spectra obtained using foreground-cleaned maps for the different years. Our analysis technique yields a measurement of the EE spectrum that is in excellent agreement with theoretical expectations from the current cosmological model. By comparison, the publicly available WMAP EE power spectrum is higher on average (and significantly higher than the predicted EE spectrum from the current best fit) at scales larger than about a degree, an excess that is not confirmed by our analysis. Our TE and TB measurements are in good agreement overall with the WMAP ones and are compatible with the theoretical expectations, although a few data points are off by a few standard deviations, and yield a reduced chi(2) somewhat above expectation. As predicted for a standard cosmological model with low tensor-to-scalar ratio, the EB and BB power spectra obtained in our analysis are compatible with zero.
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