Cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves

C Caprini, DG Figueroa - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early
universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by …

The quest for B modes from inflationary gravitational waves

M Kamionkowski, ED Kovetz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The search for the curl component (B mode) in the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
polarization induced by inflationary gravitational waves is described. The canonical single …

Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, D Barkats, RB Thakur… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2, Keck Array, and
BICEP3 CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2018 observing season. We …

Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using , WMAP, and New BICEP2/ Observations through the 2015 Season

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, RW Aikin, KD Alexander… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the bicep2/Keck CMB polarization
experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck …

The BAHAMAS project: calibrated hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure cosmology

IG McCarthy, J Schaye, S Bird… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of the large-scale distribution of matter is sensitive to a variety of fundamental
parameters that characterise the dark matter, dark energy, and other aspects of our …

Fundamental physics with the square kilometre array

A Weltman, P Bull, S Camera, K Kelley… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to
operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity …

Probing Galactic haloes with fast radio bursts

JX Prochaska, Y Zheng - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The precise localization (< 1 arcsec) of multiple fast radio bursts (FRBs) to> 0.1
galaxies has confirmed that the dispersion measures (DMs) of these enigmatic sources …

Effective field theory of dark energy: A review

N Frusciante, L Perenon - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The discovery of cosmic acceleration has triggered a consistent body of theoretical work
aimed at modeling its phenomenology and understanding its fundamental physical nature …

A critical review of classical bouncing cosmologies

D Battefeld, P Peter - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Given the proliferation of bouncing models in recent years, we gather and critically assess
these proposals in a comprehensive review. The PLANCK data shows an unmistakably red …

Measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization of the CMB from 500 square degrees of SPTpol data

JW Henning, JT Sayre, CL Reichardt… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of the E-mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum (EE)
and temperature–E-mode cross-power spectrum (TE) of the cosmic microwave background …