Inflation

 

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

arXiv:1403.3985 [pdf][other]

BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales

BICEP2 Collaboration

: P. A. R Ade

R. W. Aikin

D. Barkats

S. J. Benton

C. A. Bischoff

J. J. Bock

J. A. Brevik

I. Buder

E. Bullock

C. D. Dowell

L. Duband

J. P. Filippini

S. Fliescher

S. R. Golwala

M. Halpern

M. Hasselfield

S. R. Hildebrandt

G. C. Hilton

V. V. Hristov

K. D. Irwin

Karkare

J. P. Kaufman

B. G. Keating

S. A. Kernasovskiy

J. M. Kovac

C. L. Kuo

Leitch

M. Lueker

P. Mason

C. B. Netterfield

H. T. Nguyen

R. O'Brient

IV

A. Orlando

C. Pryke

C. D. Reintsema

S. Richter

R. Schwarz

C. D. Sheehy

Z. K. Staniszewski

R. V. Sudiwala

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)

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2. arXiv:1404.0360

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Whipped inflation

Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

Arman Shafieloo

George F. Smoot

Alexei A. Starobinsky

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)

3. arXiv:1403.7786

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Ruling out the power-law form of the scalar primordial spectrum

Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

Arman Shafieloo

George F. Smoot

Alexei A. Starobinsky

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)

4. arXiv:1310.3038

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Reconstruction of broad features in the primordial spectrum and inflaton potential from Planck

Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

Arman Shafieloo

George F. Smoot

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.

1. arXiv:1402.4856 [pdf]

Rapid Optical-IR Response Gamma-Ray Burst Space Observatory

Bruce Grossan

Pawan Kumar Daniel George

F. Smoot

Tabular data and addl info

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

2. arXiv:1402.2656

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Some Implications of inverse-Compton Scattering of Hot Cocoon Radiation by relativistic jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Pawan Kumar

George F. Smoot

Comments: 26 pages 7 figures (comments most welcome)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

3. arXiv:1212.6570

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Rapid Optical-to-IR Response, Next Generation Gamma

Ray Burst Mission

B. Grossan

G.F. Smoot

V.V. Bogomolov

S. I. Svertilov

N. N. Vedenkin

M. Panasyuk

B. Goncharov

G. Rozhkov

K. Saleev

E. Grobovskoj

A.S. Krasnov

V. S. Morozenko

V. I. Osedlo

E. Rogkov

T. V. Vachenko

E. V. Linder

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)

4. arXiv:1207.5759 [pdf]

A next generation Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO-100) for IR/optical observations of the rise phase of gamma-ray bursts

Barrillon

S. Brandt

Budtz-Jørgensen

A. J. Castro-Tirado

P. Chen

Choi

Connell

S. Dagoret-Campagne

C. De La Taille

C. Eyles

Jeong

J. E. Kim

Kim

Lim

E. V. Linder

T.-C. Liu

W. Min

G. W. Na

Reglero

J. M. Rodrigo

Yashin

M. H. Zhao

11 figures, submitted to SPIE 2012 Amsterdam conference proceedings