A limit on the detectability of the energy scale of inflation

Details A limit on the detectability of the energy scale of inflation A limit on the detectability of the energy scale of inflation

2002-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202286v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 011303

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.011303

We show that the polarization of the cosmic microwave background can be used to detect gravity waves from inflation if the energy scale of inflation is above 3.2 times 10^15 GeV. These gravity waves generate polarization patterns with a curl, whereas (to first order in perturbation theory) density perturbations do not. The limiting ``noise'' arises from the second--order generation of curl from density perturbations, or rather residuals from its subtraction. We calculate optimal sky coverage and detectability limits as a function of detector sensitivity and observing time.

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