BICEP Club: Is the BICEP result just foregrounds?

Thursday 24 Apr 2014, 12:00 → 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Building 2a, library (DESY Hamburg)

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".