Subject Areas: Cosmology A Viewpoint on: Detection of B-Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South

A microwave telescope at the South Pole has for the first time captured a particular polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background that arises from gravitational lensing by intervening matter.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Physics
Main Authors: Eiichiro Komatsu, Pole Telescope
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.392.7560
http://physics.aps.org/articles/pdf/10.1103/Physics.6.107
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Summary:A microwave telescope at the South Pole has for the first time captured a particular polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background that arises from gravitational lensing by intervening matter.