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    Statistical isotropy of CMB anisotropy from WMAP
    (2005-02-01) Souradeep, Tarun; Hajian, Amir
    The statistical expectation values of the temperature fluctuations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) are assumed to be preserved under rotations of the sky. We investigate the statistical isotropy of the CMB anisotropy maps recently measured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) using bipolar spherical harmonic power spectrum proposed in Hajian & Souradeep 2003. The Bipolar Power Spectrum (BiPS) is estimated for the full sky CMB anisotropy maps of the first year WMAP data. The method allows us to isolate regions in multipole space and study each region independently. This search shows no evidence for violation of statistical isotropy in the first-year WMAP data on angular scales larger than that corresponding to l ≈ 60 .
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    Statistical isotropy of CMB polarization maps
    (2006-06-25) Basak, Soumen; Hajian, Amir; Souradeep, Tarun
    We formulate statistical isotropy of CMB anisotropy maps in its most general form. We also present a fast and orientation independent statistical method to determine deviations from statistical isotropy in CMB polarization maps. Importance of having statistical tests of departures from SI for CMB polarization maps lies not only in interesting theoretical motivations but also in testing cleaned CMB polarization maps for observational artifacts such as residuals from polarized foreground emission. We propose a generalization of the Bipolar Power Spectrum (BiPS) to polarization maps. Application to the observed CMB polarization maps will be soon possible after the release of WMAP three year data. As a demonstration we show that for E-polarization this test can detect breakdown of statistical isotropy due to polarized synchrotron foreground.