• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad092
• Corpus ID: 254408882

Constraining Cosmic Inflation with Observations: Prospects for 2030

@article{BahrKalus2022ConstrainingCI,
  title={Constraining Cosmic Inflation with Observations: Prospects for 2030},
  author={Benedict Bahr-Kalus and David Parkinson and Richard Easther},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2022}
}

• Benedict Bahr-Kalus, D. Parkinson, R. Easther
• Published 8 December 2022
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The ability to test and constrain theories of cosmic inflation will advance substantially over the next decade. Key data sources include cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements and observations of the distribution of matter at low-redshift from optical, near-infrared, and 21cm intensity surveys. A positive detection of a CMB B-mode consistent with a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is widely viewed as a smoking gun for an inflationary phase. Still, a null…