CMBPol Mission Concept Study: A Mission to Map our Origins (2008)
Baumann, Daniel, Cooray, Asantha, Dodelson, Scott, Dunkley, Joanna, Fraisse, Aurélien A., Jackson, Mark G., ...
Quantum mechanical metric fluctuations during an early inflationary phase of the universe leave a characteristic imprint in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The amplitude of...
Polarized Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Emission from Interstellar Dust (2008)
Draine, Bruce T., Fraisse, Aurélien A.
Polarized far-infrared and submillimeter emission is calculated for models of nonspherical dust grains that are constrained to reproduce the observed wavelength-dependent extinction and polarization...
Small-Angle CMB Temperature Anisotropies Induced by Cosmic Strings (2007)
Fraisse, Aurélien A., Ringeval, Christophe, Spergel, David N., Bouchet, François R.
We use Nambu-Goto numerical simulations to compute the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies induced at arcminute angular scales by a network of cosmic strings in a...
Limits on Defects Formation and Hybrid Inflationary Models with Three-Year WMAP Observations (2006)
We confront the predicted effects of hybrid inflationary models on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with three years of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations. Using model...
Constraints on Topological Defects Energy Density from First-Year WMAP Results (2005)
We compare the predictions of hybrid inflationary models that produce both adiabatic fluctuations and topological defects to first year WMAP results. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to...