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Recent B-mode polarization observation seems to imply the tensor tilt $n_T\gtrsim 1$ at large angular scale, if the primordial signal is dominated. We show that for a primordial universe, which is in a slowly expanding genesis phase before…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhi-Guo Liu , Hong Li , Yun-Song Piao

Measuring the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation field is one of the main goals in modern cosmology. However, the so called $B$-mode polarisation can be generated by different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao

The inflationary $B$-mode signals encode invaluable information about the origin of our Universe and searching for potential signatures of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) is one of the major science goals for future precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Sen Li , Chang Feng , Filipe B. Abdalla

Gravitational waves from inflation induce polarization patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It is known that there are only two types of non-Gaussianities of the gravitaional waves in the most general scalar field theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Hiroaki W. H. Tahara , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Distortions in the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) along the line-of-sight can be modeled and described using 11 fields. These distortion fields correspond to various cosmological signals such as weak gravitational lensing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Amit P. S. Yadav , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

Primordial gravitational waves (GWs) are said to be a smoking gun in cosmic inflation, while, even if they are detected, the specification of their origins are still required for establishing a true inflationary model. Testing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Maresuke Shiraishi

It is known that in contrast with the E-mode polarization, the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background cannot be generated by the Compton scattering in the case of scalar mode of metric perturbation. However it is possible to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Mahdi Sadegh , She-Sheng Xue

One of the most promising ways of detecting primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation is to observe B-modes of polarization, generated by Thomson scattering after reionization, in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Scott Dodelson

The B-Mode of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP) promises to detect the gravitational wave background left by Inflation and explore this very early period of the Universe. In spite of its importance, however, the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Carretti

[Abridged] The polarization of the CMB is widely recognized as a potential source of information about primordial gravitational waves. The gravitational wave contribution can be separated from the dominant CMB polarization created by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher M. Hirata , Abraham Loeb , Niayesh Afshordi

A claimed detection of cosmological tensor perturbations from inflation via B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background requires distinguishing other possible B-mode sources. One such potential source of confusion is primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Yilun Guan , Arthur Kosowsky

We present a new and especially powerful signature of cosmic strings and other topological or non-topological defects in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that even if defects contribute 1% or less in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ruth Durrer , Elisa Fenu , Daniel G. Figueroa , Martin Kunz

The curl (B) modes of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies are a unique probe of the primordial background of inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs). Unfortunately, the B-mode polarization anisotropies generated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Sigurdson , Asantha Cooray

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Brian Keating , Meir Shimon , Amit Yadav

The measurement of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background at large angular scales by the BICEP experiment suggests a stochastic gravitational wave background from early-universe inflation with a surprisingly large amplitude.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jerod Caligiuri , Arthur Kosowsky

The cosmic microwave background polarization is rich of cosmological information complementary to those from temperature anisotropies. Linear polarization can be decomposed uniquely in two components of opposite parities, called E and B.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Rosset , the PLANCK-HFI Collaboration

The recent indications for a tensor-to-scalar ratio $ r \simeq 0.2$ from BICEP2 measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization present some tension with upper limits $r \lesssim 0.1$ from measurements of CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Marc Kamionkowski , Liang Dai , Donghui Jeong