The Knotted Sky II: Does BICEP2 require a nontrivial primordial power spectrum?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Abazajian, Kevork N ^a   Aslanyan, Grigor ^b   Easther, Richard ^b   Price, Layne C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CMBR polarisation; cosmological parameters from CMBR; gravitational waves and CMBR polarization; ination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918844647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/053     Document Type: Article

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