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Improved Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence from the WMAP and Planck Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Data
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The observed pattern of linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons is a sensitive probe of physics violating parity symmetry under inversion of spatial coordinates. A new parity-violating interaction might have rotated the plane of linear polarization by an angle $\beta$ as the CMB photons have been traveling for more than 13 billion years. This effect is known as "cosmic birefringence." In this paper, we present new measurements of cosmic birefringence from a joint analysis of polarization data from two space missions, Planck and WMAP. This dataset covers a wide range of frequencies from 23 to 353 GHz. We measure $\beta = 0.342^{\circ\,+0.094^\circ}_{\phantom{\circ\,}-0.091^\circ}$ (68% C.L.) for nearly full-sky data, which excludes $\beta=0$ at 99.987% C.L. This corresponds to the statistical significance of $3.6\sigma$. There is no evidence for frequency dependence of $\beta$. We find a similar result, albeit with a larger uncertainty, when removing the Galactic plane from the analysis.
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