Joby, P. K; Sen, Aparajita; Ghosh, Tuhin; Pravabati, C; Basak, Soumen
(American Physical Society, 2021-06-15)
We test the statistical isotropy (SI) of the
E
-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed by the Planck satellite using two statistics, namely, the
α
estimator that is derived ...