Bibcode
Dodelson, Scott; Easther, Richard; Hanany, Shaul; McAllister, Liam; Meyer, Stephan; Page, Lyman; Ade, Peter; Amblard, Alexander; Ashoorioon, Amjad; Baccigalupi, Carlo; Balbi, Amedeo; Bartlett, James; Bartolo, Nicola; Baumann, Daniel; Beltran, Maria; Benford, Dominic; Birkinshaw, Mark; Bock, Jamie; Bond, Dick; Borrill, Julian; Bouchet, Franois; Bridges, Michael; Bunn, Emory; Calabrese, Erminia; Cantalupo, Christopher; Caramete, Ana; Carbone, Carmelita; Carroll, Sean; Chatterjee, Suchetana; Chen, Xingang; Church, Sarah; Chuss, David; Contaldi, Carlo; Cooray, Asantha; Creminelli, Paolo; Das, Sudeep; Bernardis, Francesco De; de Bernardis, Paolo; Delabrouille, Jacques; Dsert, F. Xavier; Devlin, Mark; Dickinson, Clive; Dickler, Simon; DiPirro, Michael; Dobbs, Matt; Dore, Olivier; Dotson, Jessie; Dunkley, Joanna; Dvorklin, Cora; Eriksen, Hans Kristian; Falvella, Maria Christiana; Finley, Dave; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Fixen, Dale; Flauger, Raphael; Fosalba, Pablo; Fowler, Joseph; Galli, Silvia; Gates, Evalyn; Gear, Walter; Giraud-Heraud, Yannick; Gorski, Krzysztof; Greene, Brian; Gruppuso, Alessandro; Gundersen, Josh; Halpern, Mark; Hirata, Christopher; Hivon, Eric; Holman, Richard; Holmes, Warren; Hu, Wayne; Hubmayr, Johannes; Huffenberger, Kevin; Hui, Howard; Hui, Lam; Irwin, Kent; Jackson, Mark; Jaffe, Andrew; Johnson, Bradley; Johnson, Dean; Jones, William; Kachru, Shamit; Kadota, Kenji; Kaplan, Jean; Kaplinghat, Manoj; Keating, Brian; Keskitalo, Reijo; Khoury, Justin; Kinney, Will; Kisner, Theodore; Knox, Lloyd; Kodama, Hideo; Kogut, Alan; Komatsu, Eiichiro; Kosowsky, Reijo; Khoury, Justin; Kinney, Will; Kisner, Theodore; Kurki-Suonio, Hannu; Lamarre, Jean-Michel et al.
Bibliographical reference
Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, no. 67
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2009
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20
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Description
Modern cosmology has sharpened questions posed for millennia about the
origin of our cosmic habitat. The age-old questions have been
transformed into two pressing issues primed for attack in the coming
decade: How did the Universe begin? and What physical laws govern the
Universe at the highest energies? The clearest window onto these
questions is the pattern of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB), which is uniquely sensitive to primordial gravity
waves. A detection of the special pattern produced by gravity waves
would be not only an unprecedented discovery, but also a direct probe of
physics at the earliest observable instants of our Universe. Experiments
which map CMB polarization over the coming decade will lead us on our
first steps towards answering these age-old questions.