4–5 Jun 2026
University of Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

Constraining inflationary primordial gravitational waves from the South Pole

5 Jun 2026, 10:00
15m
Sciences II Auditorium A100 (University of Geneva)

Sciences II Auditorium A100

University of Geneva

Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30

Speaker

Julien Carron (IRSOL)

Description

Thanks to exquisite CMB B-mode data, we should see within the next few years massive improvements in constraints on a background of gravitational waves from inflation. In particular, SPT-3G and BICEP (SPO) have collected now enough data to achieve, in principle, 3 times better constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio than currently published, after the delicate removal of their main contaminant, the gravitational lensing signal. I'll discuss the CMB B-mode observational program, and work on these extremely deep maps towards this objective.

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