Speaker
Suddhasattwa Brahma
(Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University)
Description
The fossil relic of primordial gravitational waves in the anisotropic
curvature two-point function can be significantly more observable if there is a non-Bunch Davies component to the initial state of the scalar (and tensor) fluctuations during inflation. This signature is complementary to other observational signatures of initial states with an enhanced squeezed limit.
Authors
Elliot Nelson
(Pennsylvania State University)
Sarah Shandera
(P)
Suddhasattwa Brahma
(Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University)
