Probing Dark Energy Birefringence by CMB polarization Kin-Wang Ng ( 吳吳吳 ) Institute of Physics & Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan IOP Mar 27, 2013 Collaborators: Guo-Chin Liu (TKU) Seokcheon Lee (KIAS) Da-Shin Lee (NDHU) Wolung
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Probing Dark Energy Birefringence
by CMB polarization
Kin-Wang Ng (吳建宏 )
Institute of Physics & Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
IOP Mar 27, 2013
Collaborators: Guo-Chin Liu (TKU) Seokcheon Lee (KIAS) Da-Shin Lee (NDHU) Wolung Lee (NTNU)
The Hot Big Bang Model
What is CDM?Weakly interacting but can gravitationally clump into halos
What is DE??Inert, smooth, anti-gravity!!
Dark Energy
70%
Cold Dark Matter25%
Baryonic Matter
5%
Cosmic Budget
Do We Really Need Dark Energy
CMB /SNe /LSS Constraints on Physical State of Dark Energy
SNAPsatellite
SabaruLSSTJDEMEUCLID
Equation of Statew = pDE / ρDE
CMB Anisotropy and Polarization
• On large angular scales, matter imhomogeneities generate gravitational redshifts
• On small angular scales, acoustic oscillations in plasma on last scattering surface generate Doppler shifts
• Thomson scatterings with electrons generate polarization
Quadrupoleanisotropy
e
Linearly polarized
Thomsonscattering
Point the telescope to the sky Measure CMB Stokes parameters: T = TCMB− Tmean, Q = TEW – TNS, U = TSE-NW – TSW-NE
Scan the sky and make a sky map Sky map contains CMB signal,
system noise, and foreground contamination including polarized galactic and extra-galactic emissions
Remove foreground contamination by multi-frequency subtraction scheme
Obtain the CMB sky map
RAW DATE
MULTI-FREQUENCY MAPS
MEASUREMENT
MAPMAKING
SKY
FOREGROUNDREMOVAL
CMBSKY MAP
CMB Measurements
CMB Anisotropy and Polarization Angular Power Spectra
Decompose the CMB sky into a sum of spherical harmonics:
(Q − iU) (θ,φ) =Σlm a2,lm 2Ylm (θ,φ)
T(θ,φ) =Σlm alm Ylm (θ,φ)
(Q + iU) (θ,φ) =Σlm a-2,lm -2Ylm (θ,φ)
CBl =Σm (a*2,lm a2,lm − a*2,lm a-2,lm) B-polarization power spectrum
CTl =Σm (a*lm alm) anisotropy power spectrum
CEl =Σm (a*2,lm a2,lm+ a*2,lm a-2,lm ) E-polarization power spectrum
CTEl = − Σm (a*lm a2,lm) TE correlation power spectrum
(Q,U)
electric-type magnetic-type
l = 180 degrees/
Theoretical Predictions for CMB Power Spectra
• Solving the radiative transfer equation for photons with electron scatterings
• Tracing the photons from the early ionized Universe through the last scattering surface to the present time
• Anisotropy induced by metric perturbations
• Polarization generated by photon-electron scatterings
• Power spectra dependent on the cosmic evolution governed by cosmological parameters such as matter content, density fluctuations, gravitational waves, ionization history, Hubble constant, and etc.
T
E
B
TE
Boxes are predicted errors in future Planck mission
[l(1
+1)
Cl/2
CMB Anisotropy CTl 2013
CMB Polarization Power Spectra 2013
Best-fit 6-parameter ΛCDM model 2013
Tensor/Scalar Ratio and Spectral Index 2013ns=0.9675 and r < 0.11 (95% CL)
r=Tensor/Scalar =Ph(k)/PR(k) at k0=0.05 Mpc-1
Beyond ΛCDM model
Constant w w=w0+wa z/(1+z)
Observational Constraints on Dark Energy
• Smooth, anti-gravitating, only clustering on very large scales in some models
More stringent limits from WMAP team and QUaD team ‘09
Gravitational-wave B mode mimicked by late-time quintessence evoution (z<10)
Lensing B mode mimicked by early quintessence evolution
Future search for B mode
CAUTION! Must check with TB and EB cross spectra
Including Dark Energy PerturbationDark energyperturbation
time and space dependent rotation
Perturbation induced polarization power spectra in previous quintessence models are small Interestingly, in nearly ΛCDM models (no time evolution of the mean field), birefringence generates <BB> while <TB>=<EB>=0
Dark energy perturbation with w=-1 Lee,Liu,Ng 13
Birefringence generates <BB> while <TB>=<EB>=0
B mode
B mode
Summary
• Future observations such as SNe, lensing, galaxy survey, CMB, etc. to measure w(z) at high-z or test Einstein gravity
• However, it is also important to probe the nature of DE
• DE coupled to cold dark matter => effects on CMB and matter power spectra, BAO
• DE coupled to photon => time variation of the fine structure constant and creation of large-scale magnetic fields at z ~ 6
• Using CMB B-mode polarization to search for DE induced vacuum birefringence
- Mean field time evolution → <BB>, <TB>, <EB> - Include DE perturbation → <BB>, <TB>=<EB>=0 - This may confuse the searching for genuine B modes
induced by gravitational lensing or primordial gravitational waves, so de-rotation is needed to remove vacuum birefringence effects Kamionkowski 09, Ng 10