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Testing Inflation with Small Scale CMB Anisotropies

1996/06/21 by Martin White, Wayne Hu, White, Martin +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9606138

5 pages, RevTeX, with 2 postscript figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the XXXIth Moriond Meeting, Microwave Background Anisotropies. Also available at this http://www.sns.ias.edu/~whu/papers.html

arxiv created 1996/06/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We discuss ability of the harmonic pattern of peaks in the CMB angular power spectrum to test inflation. By studying robust features of alternate models, which must all be isocurvature in nature, we reveal signatures unique to inflation. Inflation thus could be validated by the next generation of experiments.

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