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Polarization of the Cosmic Infrared Background Fluctuations

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arxiv 1907.12085 v1 pith:FIJQYXZA submitted 2019-07-28 astro-ph.CO

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The cosmic infrared background (CIB) is slightly polarized. Polarization directions of individual galaxies could be aligned with tidal fields around galaxies, resulting in nonzero CIB polarization. We use a linear intrinsic alignment model to theoretically predict angular correlations of the CIB polarization fluctuations and find that electriclike and curl-like ($B$-mode) polarization modes are equally generated with power four orders of magnitude less than its intensity. The CIB $B$-mode signal is negligible and not a concerning foreground for the inflationary $B$-mode searches at nominal frequencies for cosmic microwave background measurements, but could be detected at submillimetre wavelengths by future space missions.

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