CM3 - Future Steps in Cosmology with CMB Spectral Distortions |
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Speaker |
Cabass, Giovanni |
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Coauthors |
Pajer, Enrico; van der Woude, Drian |
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CMB Spectral Distortions: Constraining Inflation At Small Scales |
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Abstract |
Anisotropies in the angular power spectra of the CMB temperature and polarization are sourced by inflationary perturbations on scales from 10^1 to 10^4 Mpc. Deviations of the CMB frequency spectrum from a black-body, instead, can probe inflationary perturbations on scales from 10^-4 to 10^-2 Mpc. These length scales are inaccessible to CMB anisotropies and large-scale structure measurements. CMB spectral distortions, averaged over the whole sky, constrain the two-point function of primordial perturbations. Correlation of temperature and spectral distortion anisotropies, instead, can constrain their three-point function (making them a probe of primordial non-Gaussianity). In the first part of this talk I discuss what is the level of sensitivity needed, by an experiment measuring the CMB frequency spectrum, to detect the running of the spectral index of inflationary perturbations. I then discuss what is the minimal contribution to the correlation function between temperature and spectral distortion anisotropies that is expected in standard inflationary scenarios. Finally, I discuss what are the secondary contributions (arising from late-time gravitational evolution) to such angular correlation, and how they could bias constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. |
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