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Journal Club

BICEP Club: Is the BICEP result just foregrounds?

Europe/Berlin
Building 2a, library (DESY Hamburg)

Building 2a, library

DESY Hamburg

Description
We will discuss the recent paper 1404.1899, which identifies a "new foreground... at high galactic latitudes [that] potentially dominates over the expected B-mode polarisation signal due to primordial gravitational waves from inflation".