Sep 7 – 11, 2015
Warsaw, Poland
Europe/Zurich timezone

Inflationary fossils in large scale structures

Sep 8, 2015, 3:20 PM
20m
Rm 111+112

Rm 111+112

Speaker

Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (ASU, United States)

Description

In some early universe scenarios, a correlation between a long-wavelength tensor perturbation with two short wavelength scalar-fluctuations may generate an observable signal in form of a quadrupolar power asymmetry. Alternatively, it may produce an off-diagonal contribution to the matter power spectrum which would represent a possible probe for primordial gravitational waves. We discuss how such intriguing possibilities come about in specific inflationary models.

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