Beam Systematics and Primordial Gravitational Wave Constraints from the BICEP/Keck Array CMB Experiments

• Main Author: St Germaine, Michael Tyler
• Other Authors: Kovac, John M, Stubbs, Christopher, Walsworth, Ronald L, Eisenstein, Daniel
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Astrophysics; South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South pole
• Online Access: https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37368448

Inflation, an extension to the standard ΛCDM model which posits a brief, accelerated expansion early in the Universe, naturally solves the horizon and flatness problems with the standard model and provides a source of the initial perturbations that seed large-scale structure. Most inflationary model...