Recent Advances in the Studies of Cosmic Microwave Background
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 3201
Special Issue Editor
Interests: magnetic fields in the universe (primordial, galactic); cosmic microwave background (polarization, b-modes, gravitational waves); CMB foregrounds modeling; reionization; large-scale structure of the universe; galactic dynamics; alternative cosmologies
Special Issue Information
The Cosmic Microwave Background is one of the fundamental pillars in our understanding of the universe. This electromagnetic radiation encodes information on the very early processes that occurred at the first stages of the universe, its content and thermal history. The success of ground experiments, balloons, and space missions has settled the cosmological model that describes the origin and evolution of our universe with unprecedented precision. But also it contains information of what happened between its formation and the travel to the observer, all of it affected by the galactic diffuse emission or by extragalactic radiosources. The non-achieved detection of the primordial B-modes (sourced by the primordial stochastic gravitational wave background generated during inflation) has opened an important effort for characterizing the polarization of the CMB, in particular, the polarized foreground emission, mainly coming from synchrotron and dust emissions of our galaxy, though other polarized signals could mask the primordial one as the lensing effect due to the large scale distribution. This Special Issue is devoted to current advances in CMB studies, which cover a wide range of the physics of the early universe, and also to the modeling of the diffuse emission of our galaxy that becomes a crucial foreground for detecting or constraining primordial B-modes as well as other effects as reionization, lensing and so on that could mask that primordial signal in polarization.
Dr. Beatriz Ruiz-Granados
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Polarization
- CMB foregrounds
- Reionization
- Early universe: inflation, primordial magnetic fields
- Dark matter
- Dark energy
- Data analysis
