Inflation and the Early Universe

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is one of the experiments looking for the gravitational waves from inflation. This is a video of
SPT’s 2014 season put together by one of the winter-overs Robert Schwarz on Vimeo.

Inflation, a period of accelerating expansion in the early Universe, is a core element in the standard cosmological model. Inflation neatly solves a number of observational problems, such as: Why is the Universe flat? Why don’t we see magnetic monopoles and other relics? How can the early Universe be so uniform? Understanding inflation is a key problem in modern physics.

Supervisor Profiles & Available Research Projects

Dr Christian Reichardt

Searches for inflationary gravitational waves

Planck_CMB
Cosmic Microwave Background as rendered by ESA’s PLANCK Mission

Morphology of cosmological fields during the epoch of Reionization
Mon 22nd July, 2019 @3:15 PM, level 6, David Caro Build[...]
Interferometric Imaging with PURIFY: Real Observations + Wide-field Corrections
Thurs 4 July, 2019 @12:00 PM, level 6, David Caro Build[...]
Exploiting non-Gaussian information to better understand the first stars and galaxies
Wed 3 July, 2019 @2:15 PM, level 7, David Caro Building[...]
Bayesian Model Selection with Future 21cm Observations of The Epoch of Reionisation
Wed 26th June, 2019 @14:15 PM, level 7, David Caro Buil[...]
Precision timing and scintillation of binary radio pulsars
Wed 12th June 2019 @14:15 PM, level 6, David Caro Build[...]
To Illuminate the Dark Ages
Wed 5th June, 2019 @14:15 PM, level 7, David Caro Build[...]
The Evolution of Super-massive Black Holes from Broadband Radio Surveys
Wed 29 May, 2019 @14:15 PM, level 7, David Caro Buildin[...]

Inflation and the Early Universe

Supervisor Profiles & Available Research Projects

Dr Christian Reichardt

Subscribe By Email

Astrophysics