THE POLARIZATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND DUE TO PRIMORDIAL GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

From MaRDI portal
Publication:5484760




Abstract: We review current observational constraints on the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), with a particular emphasis on detecting the signature of primordial gravitational waves. We present an analytic solution to the Polanarev approximation for CMB polarization produced by primordial gravitational waves. This simplifies the calculation of the curl, or B-mode power spectrum associated with gravitational waves during the epoch of cosmological inflation. We compare our analytic method to existing numerical methods and also make predictions for the sensitivity of upcoming CMB polarization observations to the inflationary gravitational wave background. We show that upcoming experiments should be able either detect the relic gravitational wave background or completely rule out whole classes of inflationary models.




Cited in
(22)






This page was built for publication: THE POLARIZATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND DUE TO PRIMORDIAL GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5484760)