Within the landscape of single-field slow-roll models, and given the
present cosmological data, we show that Cosmic Inflation predicts a
small negative running of the spectral index of the cosmological
fluctuations. This quantity imprints the large scale structures of the
universe and we have just made a prediction for its value. Will it be
measured negative and small?
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Making observable predictions for cosmic inflation requires
determining when the wavenumbers of astrophysical interest today
exited the Hubble radius during the inflationary epoch. These instants
are commonly evaluated using the slow-roll approximation and measured
in e-folds time. Pierre,
Baptiste and Christophe
propose a new analytical method to determine these instants with a
precision reaching the tenth of an e-fold.
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What is the status of Cosmic Inflation given the latest cosmological
data? In a 80 pages-long publication, we present the first ever data
analysis using the third-order slow-roll power spectra complemented by
an unprecedented Bayesian model comparison in the landscape of nearly
three-hundred models of single-field slow-roll inflation.
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The next cosmology seminar takes place on Wednesday 29th of May,
seminar room E349 at 2pm. Our guest speaker will be Eemeli
Tomberg from the Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom).
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Christophe gives a lecture on Cosmology
with space-based observatories at the Euro Space
Center for the school Space
is all around.
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