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arxiv 1109.2910 v2 pith:Y2UU5355 submitted 2011-09-13 astro-ph.CO

Laura G. Book (1) , Marc Kamionkowski (1 , 2) , Tarun Souradeep (3) ((1) Caltech (2) Johns Hopkins University (3) Inter-University Centre for Astronomy , Astrophysics , Pune , India) This is my paper · ORCID
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Bipolar spherical harmonics (BiPoSHs) provide a general formalism for quantifying departures in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from statistical isotropy (SI) and from Gaussianity. However, prior work has focused only on BiPoSHs with even parity. Here we show that there is another set of BiPoSHs with odd parity, and we explore their cosmological applications. We describe systematic artifacts in a CMB map that could be sought by measurement of these odd-parity BiPoSH modes. These BiPoSH modes may also be produced cosmologically through lensing by gravitational waves (GWs), among other sources. We derive expressions for the BiPoSH modes induced by the weak lensing of both scalar and tensor perturbations. We then investigate the possibility of detecting parity-breaking physics, such as chiral GWs, by cross-correlating opposite parity BiPoSH modes with multipole moments of the CMB polarization. We find that the expected signal-to-noise of such a detection is modest.

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