An improved upper limit to the CMB circular polarization at large angular scales (Articolo in rivista)

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  • An improved upper limit to the CMB circular polarization at large angular scales (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/08/033 (literal)
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  • Mainini, R.; Minelli, D.; Gervasi, M.; Boella, G.; Sironi, G.; Bau, A.; Banfi, S.; Passerini, A.; De Lucia, A.; Cavaliere, F. (2013)
    An improved upper limit to the CMB circular polarization at large angular scales
    in Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics
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  • Mainini, R.; Minelli, D.; Gervasi, M.; Boella, G.; Sironi, G.; Bau, A.; Banfi, S.; Passerini, A.; De Lucia, A.; Cavaliere, F. (literal)
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  • http://iopscience.iop.org/1475-7516/2013/08/033/ (literal)
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  • 19 (literal)
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  • [ 1 ] Univ Milano Bicocca, Dept Phys, I-20126 Milan, Italy; [ 2 ] Univ Milan, Dept Phys, I-20133 Milan, Italy (literal)
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  • An improved upper limit to the CMB circular polarization at large angular scales (literal)
Abstract
  • Circular polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offers the possibility of detecting rotations of the universe and magnetic fields in the primeval universe or in distant clusters of galaxies. We used the Milano Polarimeter (MIPOL) installed at the Testa Grigia Observatory, on the italian Alps, to improve the existing, upper limits to the CMB circular polarization at large angular scales. We obtain 95% confidence level upper limits to the degree of the CMB circular polarization ranging between 5.0.10(-4) and 0.7.10(-4) at angular scales between 8 degrees and 24 degrees, improving by one order of magnitude preexisting upper limits at large angular scales. Our results are still far from the nK region where today expectations place the amplitude of the V Stokes parameter used to characterize circular polarization of the CMB but improve the preexisting limit at similar angular scales. Our observations offered also the opportunity of characterizing the atmospheric emission at 33 GHz at the Testa Grigia Observatory. (literal)
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