Can topological defects mimic the BICEP2 B -mode signal?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  Lizarraga, Joanes ^a   Urrestilla, Jon ^a   Daverio, David ^b   Hindmarsh, Mark ^c,d   Kunz, Martin ^b,e   Liddle, Andrew R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; TENSORS; TOPOLOGY;

B-MODE DATA; B-MODE POLARIZATION; COSMIC STRINGS; MODE SIGNALS; PLANCK SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY; TEMPERATURE DATA; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84899707512     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.171301     Document Type: Article

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