Detecting relic gravitational waves in the CMB: The contamination caused by the cosmological birefringence

The B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is an excellent information channel for the detection of relic gravitational waves. However, the detection is contaminated by the B-mode polarization generated by some other effects. In this paper, we discuss the contaminatio...

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Main Authors: Wen Zhao, Mingzhe Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314006534