Statistics of cosmic microwave background polarization
@article{Kamionkowski1997StatisticsOC, title={Statistics of cosmic microwave background polarization}, author={M. Kamionkowski and A. Kosowsky and A. Stebbins}, journal={Physical Review D}, year={1997}, volume={55}, pages={7368-7388} }
We present a formalism for analyzing a full-sky temperature and polarization map of the cosmic microwave background. Temperature maps are analyzed by expanding over the set of spherical harmonics to give multipole moments of the two-point correlation function. Polarization, which is described by a second-rank tensor, can be treated analogously by expanding in the appropriate tensor spherical harmonics. We provide expressions for the complete set of temperature and polarization multipole moments… CONTINUE READING
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