We apply our symmetry based Power tensor technique to test conformity ofPLANCK Polarization maps with statistical isotropy. On a wide range of angularscales (l=40-150), our preliminary analysis detects many statisticallyanisotropic multipoles in foreground cleaned full sky PLANCK polarization mapsviz., COMMANDER and NILC. We also study the effect of residual foregrounds thatmay still be present in the galactic plane using both common UPB77 polarizationmask, as well as the individual component separation method specificpolarization masks. However some of the statistically anisotropic modes stillpersist, albeit significantly in NILC map. We further probed the data for anycoherent alignments across multipoles in several bins from the chosen multipolerange.
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