scholarly journals CPT CONSERVING COSMOLOGICAL BIREFRINGENCE

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (21) ◽  
pp. 3408-3411 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Q. GENG ◽  
S. H. HO ◽  
J. N. NG

We demonstrate that the cosmological birefringence can arise from CPT conserving effect, originated from the CPT-even dimension-six Chern-Simons-like term. We show that a sizable rotation polarization angle in the data of the cosmic microwave background radiation polarization can be induced.

2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Q Geng ◽  
S H Ho ◽  
J N Ng

We review our recent work, Geng et al. (J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 09, 010 (2007)) on the cosmological birefringence. We propose a new type of effective interactions in terms of the CPT-even dimension-six Chern–Simons-like term to generate the cosmological birefringence. We use the neutrino number asymmetry to induce a nonzero rotation polarization angle in the data of the cosmic microwave background-radiation polarization.PACS Nos.: 98.80.Cq, 98.80.Es, 11.30.Fs


1997 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
pp. 535-544
Author(s):  
Petri Mähönen ◽  
Tetsuya Hara ◽  
Toivo Voll ◽  
Shigeru Miyoshi

We have studied the cosmic microwave background radiation by simulating the cosmic string network induced anisotropies on the sky. The large-angular size simulations are based on the Kaiser–Stebbins effect calculated from full cosmic-string network simulation. The small-angular size simulations are done by Monte-Carlo simulation of perturbations from a time-discretized toy model. We use these results to find the normalization of μ, the string mass per unit length, and compare this result with one needed for large-scale structure formation. We show that the cosmic string scenario is in good agreement with COBE, SK94, and MSAM94 microwave background radiation experiments with reasonable string network parameters. The predicted rms-temperature fluctuations for SK94 and MSAM94 experiments are Δ T/T=1.57×10-5 and Δ T/T=1.62×10-5, respectively, when the string mass density parameter is chosen to be Gμ=1.4×10-6. The possibility of detecting non-Gaussian signals using the present day experiments is also discussed.


1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Valls–Gabaud

AbstractWe briefly review three main applications of Hα surveys in cosmology, namely: (1) the diffuse Hα emission as a tracer of the free–free foreground that contaminates the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation; (2) the Hα emission from galaxies as a measure of the formation rate of massive stars, both at low and high redshift; and (3) the diffuse Hα emission from ionised clouds as a constraint on the local ionising background radiation.


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