{
  "id": "astro-ph/9412097",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1994-12-31T16:04:05.000Z",
  "updated": "1995-02-23T01:00:02.000Z",
  "title": "Large-angle Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Reionization",
  "authors": [
    "Ka Lok Ng",
    "Kin-Wang Ng",
    "19 pages",
    "latex",
    "10 figures",
    "available upon request"
  ],
  "comment": "Changes in the revised version: 1. Below Eq. (2), we demonstrate the method of our numerical work, by adding the evolution equations for the Legendre coefficents for both the scalar and tensor mode pertubations. 2. Below Eq. (9), we added a paragraph on discussing the basis we employed in computing the polarization correlation function. 3. In Sec. 4, we have rewritten the first and second paragraphs, where we illustrate how to the explain the discrepancies with the previous work",
  "journal": "Astrophys.J. 456 (1996) 413-421",
  "doi": "10.1086/176665",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We discuss the effect of matter reionization on the large-angular-scale anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) in the standard CDM model. We separate three cases in which the anisotropy is induced by pure scalar, pure tensor, and mixed metric perturbations respectively. It is found that, if reionization occurs early enough, the polarization can reach a detectable level of sequentially $6\\%$, $9\\%$, and $6.5\\%$ of the anisotropy. In general, a higher degree of polarization implies a dominant contribution from the tensor mode or reionization at high redshift. Since early reionization will suppress small-scale CMBR anisotropies and polarizations significantly, measuring the polarization on few degree scales can be a direct probe of the reionization history of the early universe.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1995-02-23T01:00:02.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "cosmic microwave background radiation",
      "reionization",
      "large-angle polarization",
      "suppress small-scale cmbr anisotropies",
      "standard cdm model"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 390795
    }
  }
}