prospects for testing inflation with planck portsmouth 29 th june 2009
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Prospects for Testing Inflation with Planck
Portsmouth 29th June 2009
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
CURRENT OBSERVATIONS PLANCK FORECAST
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WMAP 5yr results (Komatsu etal arXiv:0803.054)
r < 0.55 (95% CL)
Efstathiou, Gratton and Paci: astro-ph/0902.4803Efstathiou and Gratton, astro-ph/0903.0345
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
POLARIZATION:: THEORETICAL MODEL
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
POLARIZATION NOMINAL MISSION: 2 SKY SURVEYS
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES THEORETICAL MODEL
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES NOMINAL MISSION: 2 SKY SURVEYS
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES NOMINAL MISSION: 4 SKY SURVEYS
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES THEORETICAL MODEL
r = 0.05
r = 0.05
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George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
ALIGNMENTS?
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
ASYMMETRY?
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
COLD SPOT?
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
arXiv:0712.1148v2
George Efstathiou 19/3/2009
Planck: Understanding the Big Bang
Conclusions: If Planck is successful, will very likely complete 4+ sky surveys. Powerful probe of inflation. Accurate measurements of scalar modes. Non-Gaussianity limits f ~ 5. Large scale polarization measurements. 95% upper limit of r ~ 0.03. Competitive with the most sensitive ground based/sub-orbital expts. Only experiment that can probe low multipoles (l < 10).
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