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Prof. Smoot and colleagues are working in models of inflation and fitting them to the CMB and large scale structure observations. Recent effort stimulated by the BICEP2 report BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales et al. (6 additional authors not shown) Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) 1. Soon to be added Whipped inflation 2 figures and 1 table; discussions extended, references main results unchanged
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Ruling out the power-law form of the scalar primordial spectrum 6 figures and 3 tables Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Reconstruction of broad features in the primordial spectrum and inflaton potential from Planck 6 figures, references added, matches final version published in JCAP Journal-ref: JCAP 12 (2013) 035 Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) After that in the research column add GRB Science and link to a page containing: Prof. Smoot and colleagues have been doing both experimental and theoretical exploration of the science of Gamma Ray Bursts. Rapid Optical-IR Response Gamma-Ray Burst Space Observatory Pawan Kumar Daniel George Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) Some Implications of inverse-Compton Scattering of Hot Cocoon Radiation by relativistic jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts Comments: 26 pages 7 figures (comments most welcome) Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ] Rapid Optical-to-IR Response, Next Generation Gamma Ray Burst Mission Moscow State University Russia, University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences USA, Moscow State University Russian Federation Comments: Elaborated text version of a poster presented at 2012 Malaga/Marbella symposium Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) A next generation Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO-100) for IR/optical observations of the rise phase of gamma-ray bursts 11 figures, submitted to SPIE 2012 Amsterdam conference proceedings |