BICEP2 Data, CMB B-modes, Inflation, Alternative Cosmologies... (II)
Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 17:50
in Astronomy & Space
It is now generally admitted that the BICEP2 Collaboration has not yet produced an evidence for the existence of primordial B-modes in the measured polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Contrary to the claim contained in the initial version arXiv:1403.3985v1 and to the strong media coverage that followed this announcement, the Physical Review Letters 112, 241101 article explicitly recognizes that it is by now not excluded that the entire BICEP2 signal be due to polarized dust emission. read more